Saudi-Led Coalition Finally Recognizes Its War Crime Against a Yemeni School Bus

The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the United States, on Saturday condemned the Dahyan student massacre in Saada province that killed more than 50 civilians, including 41 children on board.
“The Joint Forces Command expresses its regret for these mistakes and extends its condolences to the families of the victims and their solidarity with them and wishes the wounded speedy recovery,” the statement said.
The Saudi-led coalition’s confession has made a mockery of what it called a “mistake” in the air raids on Saada province, killing dozens, mostly children. This late confession came after a previous claim that the US-Saudi raid did not collide with a school bus but rather a group of experts.
In fact, the Saudi-led coalition acknowledged the horrific massacre of Dahian after the UN panel of experts announced the findings of its investigations into the abuses and crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen nearly four years ago.
The expert group’s report confirmed that the coalition air raids targeted civilian boats belonging to Yemeni fishermen off the coast of Hodeidah, killing dozens and leaving many others who disappeared, in addition to the killing of 32 Somali refugees in a raid by the occupation forces. Coalition.
Saudi fishermen are routinely detained by Saudi forces. 148 fishermen were detained by coalition forces and taken to Saudi detention facilities and isolated from the outside world, the report said.
The report also said that the Saudi-led coalition imposed strict sea and air restrictions that had a devastating impact on the civilian population and on commercial shipping, increasing the cost of delivering these materials to markets and closing Sana’a effectively. Airport to civil aviation, and prevent Yemenis from accessing health care abroad.
The expert report reviewed 11 cases in which air raids targeted popular markets, one of which was a terrible incident in which 107 civilians, including 25 children, were killed during coalition raids targeting Souq Khamis.
According to the report, a number of air strikes damaged MSF facilities, the latest of which was an air strike that hit a new cholera treatment center in Abes district of Hajjah province. A number of civic gatherings also targeted funerals and weddings in Sana’a during the funeral of a senior official’s father.