Rights group Saudi-led coalition damaged Yemen's economy
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An international rights group says the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels has also damaged the impoverished country's economic infrastructure in the year-long air campaign.
Human Rights Watch says in a new report released on Monday that the air campaign has struck factories, warehouses, and power stations. The group documented airstrikes on 13 key facilities since the beginning of the Saudi-led campaign in March 2015, until February.
The New York-based watchdog says the airstrikes killed 130 civilians in those facilities, which produced, stored, and distributed food, medicine, and electricity. The strikes also left hundreds of Yemenis unemployed.
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HRW says that "taken together, the attacks on factories and other civilian economic structures raise serious concerns that the Saudi-led coalition has deliberately sought to inflict widespread damage to Yemen's production capacity."