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| At least 17 dead in airstrike on market in Yemen – medics | At least 17 dead in airstrike on market in Yemen – medics |
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| At least 17 people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a marketplace in the town of Al Hudaydah in Yemen, medics told an RT stringer. | |
| More than 12 people were injured, with the medics warning that the death toll may rise to over two dozen. | More than 12 people were injured, with the medics warning that the death toll may rise to over two dozen. |
| According to AFP, 26 people, including 20 civilians and 6 Houthi rebel fighters, were killed in the airstrike. | |
| The militants allegedly fled to the market to escape the bombardment, but were still targeted by the warplanes. | |
| A military source close to Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi told AFP that the rebels used civilians as "human shields." | |
| Al-Masirah TV channel, controlled by the Houthis, reported that 27 people were killed and dozens wounded in the attack. | |
| The Red Sea port of Al Hudaydah is Yemen’s fourth-largest city, with a population of around 400,000, located in the west of the country. | |
| Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has headed an international military coalition carrying out an unrelenting campaign of airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. | |
| Riyadh and its allies have been accused of war crimes by humanitarian groups after their airstrikes hit residential areas and public gatherings on numerous occasions. | |
| READ MORE: UN panel finds Saudi strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes | |
| Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported in October that the Saudi coalition, “with direct military support from the US and assistance from the UK,” conducted at least 58 “unlawful airstrikes.” | |
| In late February, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, said that around 10,000 people have been killed in the country since Saudi Arabia intervened, with 7 million people close to starvation. | |
| According to World Health Organization figures, more than 7,400 people have been killed, with around 1,400 of them being children. |