Saudi jets attack Yemen’s Sa’ada with cluster bombs

Five Yemeni children have been martyred and several others injured in Saudi Arabia’s latest attack on its southern neighbor.

According to Press TV, the children were martyred on Monday as Saudi warplanes used clusters bombs in the Sahar district of the country’s Northwestern Province of Sa’ada.

A woman was also martyred as the kingdom’s jets pounded a residential area in the province.

On Thursday, the UN human rights office stressed that using cluster bombs against residential areas in Yemen by the Saudi military is a violation of international law.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein also called for the creation of an independent international body to investigate cases of human rights violations in conflict-ridden Yemen.     

Earlier in May, Human Rights Watch criticized the United States for selling cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia, urging Riyadh to stop using such banned arms that leave behind unexploded sub-munitions and endanger civilians.

Following the Monday cluster bomb attack, the Yemeni army, which is backed by fighters from Yemen's Ansarullah movement, released footage of their retaliatory attacks against Saudi troops inside the kingdom.

Such attacks are part of a drive by Ansarullah and allies to avenge more than 15 months of military aggression by Saudi Arabia.

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