[06/06/2023 02:49]

Riyadh - Saturday
The official spokesman for the Joint Incidents Assessment Team in Yemen, Legal Counsellor Mansour Al-Mansour, announced a number of allegations made by UN agencies and international organizations regarding mistakes committed by the coalition forces to support legitimacy in Yemen during its military operations inside Yemen.

The Joint Incident Assessment Team of the Coalition for Reinforcing Legitimacy refuted a number of allegations about incidents that occurred in Yemen, and it was contacted by a number of international organizations and worked on evaluating, investigating and fact-finding about them according to the methodology it follows, and reached results that reveal the falsity of those allegations.

Al-Mansour reviewed, during a press conference held at the Armed Forces Officers Club in Riyadh yesterday, the results of the evaluation of four incidents included in these allegations.

The team's spokesman said, "The team visited a number of Yemeni regions and conducted field inspections in the interim capital, Aden, as well as the governorates of Lahj and Abyan, and met eyewitnesses from these cities, in addition to the city of Taiz."

The spokesman refuted the allegations in 4 cases that many foreign organizations claimed were caused by the coalition forces during air raids launched over the past years on targets in Sana'a and the governorates of Al-Bayda, Taiz and Saada, and confirmed with documents and pictures that he did not bomb any of the three places in Taiz, Sana'a and Al-Bayda that the organizations claimed to have committed mistakes.

In which the team stated that the fourth case was in Saada, in which it was said that a detention center was targeted, killing and injuring many African detainees, noting that the bombing targeted the Central Security camp, and it was not reported by any party that it was a detention center, and that the bombing targeted the building from the outside and did not cause any damage, besides It is used to prepare and launch drones and train fighters, and information indicates that prison guards shot prisoners while they were escaping.

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