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Saudi jets deliberately strike Yemen industrial facilities: HRW

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia aims to destroy Yemen’s economy by deliberately striking Yemeni factories, warehouses, farms and power plants.

The New York-based rights group made the revelation in a report titled “Bombing Businesses,” which was published on Monday.

The report examined 17 air raids on “13 civilian economic sites” that claimed the lives of 130 civilians and wounded 171 others.

The HRW further said the airstrikes could mount to war crimes.

The “air strikes on civilian factories appear intended to damage Yemen’s shattered economy long into the future,” said Priyanka Motaparthy, a senior emergencies researcher at the HRW, and an author of the 59-page report.

According to the report, many of the facilities, where more than 2,500 people used to be employed, were forced to shut down and hundreds of workers “lost their livelihoods.”

HRW also called for an independent international inquiry into the air raids.

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