Ban Ki-moon Deplores Saudi Airstrike on UN Compound in Yemen
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored on Monday a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen that seriously damaged a UN Development Program office and injured a guard, calling for a full investigation into the incident.
Ban's spokesman Farhan Haq said the air strike happened in the southern city of Aden on Sunday.
"The Secretary-General strongly believes that this incident only underscores the imperative that all the parties to the conflict must end the fighting and return to the negotiation table as the only possible way to achieve a durable peace in Yemen," Haq was quoted by Reuters as saying.
In another development in Yemen, Saudi fighters attacked a residential area in Yemen’s central province of Ma'rib, situated approximately 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on Monday.
As a result, 12 members of a family, mostly women and children, lost their lives in their home, Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV network reported.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to launch deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
According to a civil coalition monitoring Saudi Arabia's crimes, 3043 people, including 722 children and 532 women, have been killed during 95 days of Saudi-led military strikes on the Arab country.
This is while, the Yemeni people are also targeted by terrorist groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) inside the Arabian Peninsula country.
In the latest attacks, a car bomb has exploded near a military hospital in the Yemeni capital killing at least 28 people.
In a statement posted online on Monday, the ISIL claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack that also injured 20 others, Al Jazeera reported.
