An urgent message from Saudi Arabia to the Security Council regarding the Saada incident
The Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations handed over an urgent message to the UN Security Council chief, British Ambassador Karen Pierce, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterich.
According to the agency "SPA" that the Saudi Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abdullah bin Yahya al-Maalami, said in his letter to the Security Council, "The coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen, said that the targeting, which took place on Thursday, 9 August 2018 in the province of Saada, is a military action A project targeting Houthi leaders who were responsible for recruiting and training young children, and then sending them to the battlefields, as well as one of the most prominent weapons trainers, including a sniper instructor. "
In his letter to the Security Council, al-Maalami added that the coalition confirmed that the incident was referred to a joint team to investigate and evaluate the incidents to take immediate action and evaluate the incident within the conditions of the said operation.
In his letter, the Saudi delegate called for the Coalition's statement on the legitimate military objectives and the statement issued by the joint investigation to assess the incident.
Al-Moallemi expressed his country's regret at the failure of the Security Council in the face of flagrant violations of its resolutions, particularly arms embargoes issued by the source, pursuant to Security Council resolutions 2216 and 2231. He added that this failure "allowed Iran to supply Houthi terrorist militias with large arms, While the Houthis have benefited from a growing stockpile of ballistic missiles, drones and naval mines, using these illegally obtained weapons to threaten regional stability in the Middle East and the safety of maritime navigation in the Red Sea and the Strait of Mandeb. "
The British envoy to the United Nations, Karen Pearce, said earlier that the UN Security Council calls for a transparent and credible investigation into the raid of the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia on the Yemeni province of Saada.
These developments come after an air strike carried out by coalition aircraft on August 9 on the Yemeni province of Saada, a bus carrying students, killing dozens of children.
In the same context, the "Arab alliance" under the leadership of Saudi Arabia accused the Huthi forces of continuing to recruit children in Yemen and subjecting them to "destruction", pointing to his desire to preserve their safety and not to be involved in wars.
According to his spokesman, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, Saturday, he began the process of returning 7 children to their families by handing over to the legitimate government and in the presence of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after the Houthis recruited them as fighters.
The coalition said that its forces saved during the last period 86 minors of death and handed them to their families, stressing his interest in "preserving the safety of children and not to engage in war and affected by them."
The statement comes as international parties, including the UN Security Council, call on the Arab Coalition to investigate immediately the reports of the killing of Yemeni civilians as a result of raids in various parts of the country, primarily the strike on the city of Dahyan in the province of Saada, Of the Houthis and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 50 civilians, mostly children, were killed and 77 injured.
On Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) said it had recorded more than 17,000 deaths and injuries in Yemen since the Saudi-led Arab alliance intervened in the conflict.
According to the World Organization estimates, 6,592 civilians were killed and 10,470 injured in Yemen between 26 March 2015 and 9 August 2018. The Arab Coalition took responsibility for most of these cases (10,471 out of 1,7062 cases).
Source: Agencies + Saudi Media
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