Tuesday;June 7, 2016: Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General (SG) has detached the Saudi Arabia-led coalition combating Shiite rebels in Yemen from a list of govt. armed forces that devoted grave violation alongside children last year awaiting a combined review of cases following a vehement Saudi protest.

Saudi Arabia's UN Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said "the removal is unconditional and irreversible, explaining that the government is confident a review will conclude that the coalition was "wrongly placed on the list."

He said,“The govt was deeply disappointed at the inclusion which was based on inaccurate and incomplete information.”

The SG‘s yearly report on children and armed conflict out Thursday which said, “the UN documented 1,953 deaths and injuries of children in Yemen in 2015, 60 per cent of them attributed to the coalition.”