UN says Yemen violence struck camps and health centres

Displacement camps and health centres have been attacked during surging violence in Yemen between Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and Iran-backed Houthis, UN agencies said on Thursday, deploring a growing civilian death toll which includes children.



The latest fighting marks a sharp escalation in Yemen's civil war, which had largely been frozen since a 2022 truce, as well as a widening of the conflict that has grown out of the US-Israeli war on Iran.



Violence has flared along old front lines in recent weeks, including around Taiz as the Houthis swept south along the Red Sea coast, prompting a humanitarian crisis with over 130,000 people displaced and some fleeing to Africa across the Red Sea.



UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said his office had documented three attacks by Ansar Allah, the formal name for the Houthi movement, on sites for internally displaced people since August.