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Yemen Risks Return to 'Full-Scale Conflict', UN Rights Chief Warns
- On Monday, human rights chief Volker Türk voiced alarm at escalating hostilities in Yemen, urging all parties to de-escalate tensions and avoid plunging the country back into full-scale war.
- The Tehran-backed Houthi group upended a 2022 truce with the Saudi-backed government last month, escalating attacks on areas it holds as Yemen was drawn into the broader Iran war.
- Houthi missile and drone attacks on the Red Sea port of Mokha on August 9 killed three port workers, while an August 11 cargo ship strike in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait killed four crew members.
- The rights office reported at least seven civilians killed and 10 wounded in government-controlled areas since August 6, while attacks on infrastructure deepen suffering for at least 18 million food-insecure Yemenis.
- Earlier this month, Houthi rebels killed 58 government troops in Marib, raising the spectre of a return to war in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country as violence spreads.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday called on the belligerents in Yemen to "stop immediately" any offensive, an intensification of rebel attacks, he said, could plunge the country back into "a large-scale conflict".
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on the belligerents to stop any offensive that could lead to a large-scale conflict.
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