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Yemen: Military Intervention

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 68141, tabled on 15 March 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 13 January 2017 to Question 58527 and of 1 March 2017 to Question 64848, if he will make an independent assessment of each of the eight airstrikes which were investigated by the Saudi-led coalition's Joint Incident Assessment Team on whether international humanitarian law violations have occurred.

Answered on

23 March 2017

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) monitors and analyses incidents of alleged International Humanitarian Law violations, such as the eight incidents referred to, using all available information. Details of the MOD's analysis of these allegations are necessarily confidential. It is for the Saudi-led Coalition to investigate such incidents, as they have done through the Joint Incidents Assessment Team.

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