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The killing of civilians in the Yemeni port city of Mokha last week by aircraft of a Saudi Arabia-led coalition may constitute a war crime, Human Rights Watch said.

At least 65 people, including 10 children, died and dozens were wounded during the night of July 24 when jets repeatedly struck two residential compounds housing workers at a steam power plant and their families, the New York-based advocacy group said.

“With no evident military target, this attack appears to be a war crime,” Ole Solvang, a senior HRW researcher, said in a statement on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the Saudi-led alliance, which says it only attacks enemy locations.

Saudi Arabia has co-ordinated a four-month bombing campaign aimed at reinstating its ally, President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi, after his administration was ousted by Houthi rebels. The Houthis still control much of Yemen, a country that lies adjacent to key shipping routes, though the nation’s exiled government said it had retaken Aden from the rebels earlier this month.

Since the airstrikes began in March, 1,895 civilians have been killed and 4,182 injured, the United Nations said in a statement on Tuesday. Between July 16-27, at least 202 civilians died and 353 were wounded.

The coalition declared a humanitarian truce at Hadi’s request days after the Mokha raids. It collapsed within hours early on Monday, as had two earlier cease-fires, amid reports of attacks by the Houthis and further Saudi airstrikes.

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Human Rights Watch said the Houthis may also have committed violations during months of fighting. Military operations by rebels in Aden, Taiz and other areas “have repeatedly put civilians and civilian structures such as hospitals at unnecessary risk,” the group said.

A senior Houthi leader, Dhaif Allah Al-Shami, said he was unaware of the report but added that accusations of abuses by the rebels are groundless.

In Mokha, bombs dropped by coalition aircraft struck a residential building that housed 200 families, Human Rights Watch said. It cited interviews with managers at the power plant during a visit to the site in southwest Yemen. A separate compound for short-term staff was also struck, it said.

Human Rights Watch said it saw no signs that the buildings were being used for military purposes. It identified a military facility about 800 meters away. Plant workers said it had formerly been an air-defense base but was abandoned months ago.

The conflict in Yemen has escalated into a humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies say. Oxfam, a U.K.-based humanitarian group, said in a statement on Tuesday that nearly 13 million people are struggling to find enough food, with half of those on the brink of starvation.

(Updates with UN death toll in fifth paragraph.)