28 Aug 2018 (Geneva) – The military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen has killed thousands of civilians in airstrikes, tortured detainees, raped civilians and used child soldiers as young as 8 — actions that may amount to war crimes, United Nations investigators said in a report issued Tuesday. The report singled out Saudi and Emirati airstrikes for causing the most civilian casualties, saying they had hit residential areas, markets, funerals, weddings, jails, boats and medical facilities. The report accused the Saudi-led coalition of routinely having failed to consult its own “no-strike list” of more than 30,000 sites in Yemen, including refugee camps and hospitals. It also said the Saudi Air Force had not cooperated with investigators about its targeting procedures. Sixty coalition attacks on residential areas reviewed by the experts killed more than 500 civilians, including 233 children, they said. An attack on a funeral hall in Sana in October 2016 killed at least 137 civilians, according to the report.
The experts said that the coalition had kept up the intensity of the airstrikes even after it had become clear that civilians were suffering dire consequences. The report detailed allegations of rape and abuse by a proxy unit called the Security Belt Forces, which is under the control of the United Arab Emirates, that targeted not just detainees but also refugee and migrant women and children – and much more NYT report.

On 28 August 2024, the US-Saudi Aggression continued its raids and bombardment on several Yemeni provinces, leaving killed and wounded, in addition to material damage in public and private property.

A civilian was killed, and another injured by Saudi bombardment in Yemen’s Saada – Yaman Yoon report.

The Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched multiple airstrikes on Yemen’s Sanaa airport in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Wednesday midnight, local residents said, just one hour after the Houthi rebels fired a cruise missile toward Saudi Abha airport – Xinhua report.

28 August 2015: Bombing of civilian homes in residential neighbourhood of Al Dhilar District, Ibb governorate, kills 5 (including a child and a woman).  CAATuk