UN says Saudi airstrikes killed 42 civilians in 1 week

Airstrikes by a coalition under the leadership of the regime in Riyadh against civilian targets across Yemen have killed 42 more civilians, including a number of children, over the past week, the United Nations human rights office says.

 "In the week from August 17 to August 24, 58 civilians have been killed, including 42 by the Saudi-led coalition," said Liz Throssell, the spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in a press briefing in Geneva on Friday.

The UN figure was released following a series of Saudi-led airstrikes on Wednesday, including an attack on a hotel in Sana’a Governorate that killed 33 people and a separate strike on a residential home in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, which left six more people dead.

According to an OHCHR statement, "a woman and two children were killed and two women and two children were injured when an airstrike by the Saudi-led Coalition hit a house in Talan village" in Sana'a Governorate on Tuesday.

It added, "In all these cases, in which civilians were killed and injured, witnesses said that there had been no warnings that an attack was imminent."

Saudi warplanes pounded a neighborhood in Sana’a on Friday, killing 14 civilians, including women and children.

The airstrike struck residential buildings in the Faj Attan neighborhood of the Yemeni capital, the local al-Masirah television network reported, adding that the fatalities included two women and six children.

The latest carnage came a few days after at least 60 people were killed in Saudi airstrikes that hit a hotel north of Sana’a on Wednesday.

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