In a report presented to the Human Rights Council, a group of experts named by the U.N. said that Yemen’s people have been subjected to some 10 airstrikes a day, a total of more than 23,000 since March 2015.
FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2019 file photo, bodies covered in plastic lie on the ground amid the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen. A United Nations panel in a report presented to the Human Rights Council Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, said that at least 18,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed or injured by airstrikes since the country’s war escalated in 2015.
Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthis took control of the capital of Sanaa and much of the northern part of the country, forcing the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia. The true toll of the conflict remains in question, due to limited access to some of the remote areas in which it is conducted. In December 2020, the U.N.'s humanitarian body said that the war had caused more than 200,000 deaths, including more than 100,000 from indirect causes such as starvation and preventable causes due to lack of basic services.
Both sides were found to have made targets of key health facilities and food supply chain infrastructure.
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