{"id":4753,"date":"2017-09-12T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4753-un-human-rights-chief-calls-for-probe-into-saudi-arabia-s-war-on-yemen\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:54:47","slug":"un-human-rights-chief-calls-for-probe-into-saudi-arabia-s-war-on-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4753-un-human-rights-chief-calls-for-probe-into-saudi-arabia-s-war-on-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief calls for probe into Saudi Arabia\u2019s war on Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u2019s human rights chief has called for urgent investigation into Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The UN\u2019s human rights chief has called for urgent investigation into Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.<\/h4>\n<h4>Zeid Ra\u2018ad al-Hussein made the remarks during a Monday speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva after the global body attributed over 5,000 civilian deaths to Saudi Arabian airstrikes.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe minimal efforts made toward accountability over the past year are insufficient to respond to the gravity of the continuing and daily violations involved in this conflict,\u201d he said.<\/h4>\n<h4>In the same context, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced the air raids conducted by Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen as \u201cwar crimes,\u201d calling on the United Nations to launch an investigation into the fatal strikes.<\/h4>\n<h4>The rights organization cited on Tuesday five \u201capparently unlawful\u201d Saudi aerial assaults in Yemen between June 9 and August 4, which killed 39 civilians, among them 26 children.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe Saudi-led coalition\u2019s repeated promises to conduct its airstrikes lawfully are not sparing Yemeni children from unlawful attacks,\u201d said Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director at HRW, adding that the attacks \u201care still wiping out entire families\u201d in Yemen.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15308\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/images_2017_09_12_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/images_2017_09_12_05.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/images_2017_09_12_05-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u2019s human rights chief has called for urgent investigation into Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen. \u00a0 The UN\u2019s human rights chief has called for urgent investigation into Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen. 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