\n\u201cThe international community\u2019s silence on these war crimes has emboldened their perpetrators to kill more civilians,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in Tehran on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
The United Nations office in Yemen said preliminary field\u00a0reports indicated that \"as many as 31 civilians were killed and\u00a012 others injured in strikes that hit al-Hayjah area\" in al-Jawf\u00a0province.<\/p>\n\n
The health ministry in al-Jawf province\u00a0said women and children were among those killed, Yemen's al-Masirah TV reported. They were attacked as they gathered near the wreckage of a Saudi warplane shot down on Friday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Mousavi strongly condemned \"the criminal attack by the Saudi-led coalition forces\u00a0and offered commiserations to the bereaved families and the oppressed Yemeni people,\"\u00a0IRNA news agency reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
\n\u201cOver the past several years, we have repeatedly witnessed that whenever Saudi-led coalition forces or their allies suffer humiliating defeats in the battlefield, they react by cowardly slaughtering women, children and civilians with American weapons,\u201d Mousavi said.<\/p>\n\n
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\"Yesterday's crime in Jawf province is just one example among dozens of their war crimes,\" he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Saudi Arabia\u2019s state-run news agency quoted military spokesman Col. Turki al-Maliki Saturday as saying that the tornado warplane belonging to the kingdom's\u00a0air force had been shot down over the province of Jawf on Friday.<\/p>\n\n
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Yemeni forces said they shot down the warplane with an advanced surface-to-air missile.<\/p>\n\n
Saudi warplanes later targeted people who had gathered near the wreckage of the jet. Officials said aid workers could not reach the site of the attack due to continuous flights by Saudi warplanes over the area.<\/p>\n\n
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\"As usual, when the most brutal US-Saudi aggression receives painful strikes in the military confrontation fields, it replies with great folly by targeting civilians,\u201d spokesman for Yemeni armed forces Yahya Sare'e said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for\u00a0Yemen\u00a0Lise\u00a0Grande also denounced the \"terrible strikes\" in al-Jawf province.<\/p>\n\n
\"So many people are being killed in Yemen - it's a tragedy and it's unjustified. Under international humanitarian law parties which resort to force are obligated to protect civilians,\" she said.<\/p>\n\n
\"Five years into this conflict and belligerents are still failing to uphold this responsibility. It's shocking,\" she added.<\/p>\n\n
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