An investigation by Amnesty International and Airwars has revealed that more than 1,600 civilians were killed as a direct result of US, UK and French airstrikes and US artillery strikes during the Coalition’s military assault on the Syrian city Raqqa in 2017.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in recent fighting, including in coalition airstrikes on a vegetable market and road checkpoint, Huthi fighters have now taken up positions on a hospital roof, placing civilians inside the building in danger.
Governments selling arms to Saudi Arabia should recognise that the Saudi-led coalition’s sham investigations do not protect them from being complicit in serious violations in Yemen.
Amnesty International has welcomed a U-turn by the US-led military Coalition after it admitted to killing dozens of civilians in its huge Raqqa offensive in Syria last year.
Top officials from across the United Nations system have called for the Saudi-led coalition to fully lift its blockade of Yemen's Red Sea ports, warning that unless commercial imports are resumed, “the threat of widespread famine in a matter of months is very real.”