AIR strikes in northern Yemen have killed at least seven civilians, residents and a Houthi official said, the third such incident since June as violence resurges in the war-damaged country.
A Houthi rebel health ministry spokesperson said attacks by the Saudi-led coalition hit residential homes in the al-Hazm district, al-Jawf province, killing nine people including two children and two women. Residents said seven people were killed.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the reports will be investigated.
“We take this report very seriously and it will be fully investigated as all reports of this nature are, using an internationally approved, independent process,” said al-Malki.
The military alliance intervened in Yemen in March 2015 soon after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement removed the Saudi-backed government from power in the capital, Sanaa.
Violence has picked up since the expiry in late May of a temporary ceasefire prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Houthis
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