Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said the Houthi airstrikes by Houthis killed at least 22 civilians this week in a village in northern Yemen. Medical sources quoted by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen said late on Monday that the attacks in Kushar district, in Hajja Province, killed 10 women and 12 children and wounded 30 people, including 14 under the age of 18. "Many of the injured children have been sent to hospitals in Abs district and in Sanaa for treatment and several require possible evacuation to survive," the UN Coordinator in the country, Lise Grande, said in a statement. Kushar had seen sporadic clashes in recent weeks apparently caused by shifting loyalties of local tribes in the complex war. A UN statement said on Tuesday that clashes broke out between the Houthis and the Hajour tribesmen in late January and fighting intensified in March with the start of airstrikes. The International Crisis Group said in a note this week that the Houthis accuse the Hajour tribesmen of accepting arms and support from Saudi Arabia. The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 on the side of the internationally recognized government of Abdurabbu Mansour Hadi which was ousted from power in the capital Sanaa in 2014. The Houthis, who say their revolution is against corruption, control Sanaa and most urban centers. Hadi's government is based in the southern port of Aden and holds some coastal towns. The war has displaced more than two million and driven the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country to the verge of famine. Western nations, many of which supply arms and intelligence to the coalition, have pressed for an end to the conflict. — Reuters
