UN Rights Chief Says Civilians Are Bearing the Brunt of Fighting in Yemen
The UN said 32 civilians, including 15 children and 3 women, have been killed since August as fighting flares along old front lines.
- On Thursday, High Commissioner Human Rights Volker Turk stated civilians are bearing the brunt of surging violence in Yemen, with his office documenting 32 deaths since August.
- Fighting has flared between Saudi-backed Yemeni forces and Iran-backed Houthis along the Red Sea, prompting a humanitarian crisis with over 130,000 people displaced.
- Turk's office documented 125 killed or wounded in recent clashes, including three Ansar Allah attacks on internally displaced sites with 15 children and three women among the fatalities.
- While Turk urged all sides to "step back from further escalation," Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam accused the United Nations of bias and dismissed allegations as false.
- United Nations officials forecast displacement could swell from over 130,000 to more than 230,000 in coming months, heightening fears over global trade through the vital Bab al-Mandab strait.
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UN says Houthis attacked displacement camps in Yemen
LONDON: At least 125 civilians have been killed or wounded in Yemen since Houthi militants launched a fresh offensive last month, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said on Thursday. His office had documented the killings of 32 of those civilians, including 15 children and three women, since the Iran-backed group resumed attacks at the start of August. The Houthis have also carried out three separate attacks on camps in Marib province contain…
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UN rights chief says civilians are bearing the brunt of fighting in Yemen
GENEVA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Civilians are being hardest hit by surging violencein Yemen between Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and Iran-backedHouthis, the UNhuman rights chief said on Thursday.The latest fighting marks a sharp escalation in Yemen's civil war, which had largely been frozen since a 2022 truce.Violence has flared along old front lines in recent weeks, including around Taiz as the Houthis swept south along the Red Sea coast, …
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said today, that it was civilians who bore the brunt of the escalation of violence in Yemen between Saudi-backed government forces and Iranian-allied Houthi. The recent clashes represented a sharp escalation in the Yemeni civil war, which had largely frozen since a truce in 2022.
The UN human rights officer today pointed out the number of civilians killed in Yemen when the conflict between the Huthis rebels and the pro-government forces intensified.
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