Yemen Risks Return to 'Full-Scale Conflict', UN Rights Chief Warns
- On Monday, human rights chief Volker Türk voiced alarm at escalating hostilities in Yemen, urging all parties to de-escalate tensions and avoid plunging the country back into full-scale war.
- The Tehran-backed Houthi group upended a 2022 truce with the Saudi-backed government last month, escalating attacks on areas it holds as Yemen was drawn into the broader Iran war.
- Houthi missile and drone attacks on the Red Sea port of Mokha on August 9 killed three port workers, while an August 11 cargo ship strike in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait killed four crew members.
- The rights office reported at least seven civilians killed and 10 wounded in government-controlled areas since August 6, while attacks on infrastructure deepen suffering for at least 18 million food-insecure Yemenis.
- Earlier this month, Houthi rebels killed 58 government troops in Marib, raising the spectre of a return to war in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country as violence spreads.
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Following the recent escalation in the Yemen conflict, the UN High Commissioner calls for the immediate end of the fighting in Yemen.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on the warring parties in Yemen this Monday to "stop immediately" any offensive, and warned that if the attacks escalate, this will plunge the country back into "a large-scale conflict."
UN rights chief voices alarm over rising civilian toll in Yemen’s conflict, urges restraint
UNITED NATIONS - Escalating conflict in Yemen is killing and injuring a growing number of civilians, the UN human rights chief warned on Monday, as Houthi rebels also strike Saudi Arabia and Red Sea shipping linked to the wider Iran–US confrontation.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday called on the belligerents in Yemen to "stop immediately" any offensive, an intensification of rebel attacks, he said, could plunge the country back into "a large-scale conflict".
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