“We are taking operational mea- sures to protect civilians and ci- vilian objects in accordance with international humanitarian law,” the coalition said in a statement.
The missile attack was the third attack in 24 hours after the coalition destroyed two drones launched by Iran-backed Houthis. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on a top Houthi security official in the Yemeni city of Sanaa, citing his prominent role in intimida- tions, systematic arrests, deten- tions, torture, sexual violence “and rape against politically active women.”
A resolution adopted by a vote of 14-0, with Russia abstaining,said Sultan Saleh Aida Aida Zabin, director of the Criminal Investi- gation Department in Sanaa, was directly or by virtue of his author- ity responsible for using multiple places of detention including po-lice stations and detention centers for human rights abuses.
“In these sites, women, includ- ing at least one minor, were forci- bly disappeared, repeatedly inter- rogated, raped, tortured, denied. timely medical treatment and sub- jected to forced labor,” the council said in imposing a travel ban and arms embargo. “Zabin himself directly inflicted torture in some cases.”
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