Amid Fresh Yemen Killings, UN May Re-Blacklist Saudi Arabia

Source: Telesurv TV

U.N. officials said the organization will threaten Saudi Arabia with putting its coalition in Yemen back on the blacklist of nations and groups that abuse and kill children.

The U.N. is ready to place Saudi Arabia and its coalition allies attacking Yemen on the organization's blacklist for abusing and killing children after the coalition attacked a school, a hospital and family home within four days, killing more than 35 civilians, a report by Foreign Policy magazine said Wednesday.

The threat is likely to come in the form of a letter from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office to the Saudi government as early as Thursday, the magazine was told by unnamed senior officials at the United Nations.

In June, Saudi Arabia reacted angrily to a decision to blacklist the coalition after a U.N. report found the alliance responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in Yemen last year. Ban later took the coalition off the list after threats to cut off funding to U.N. aid programs.

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