The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, today condemned in the strongest possible terms a deadly airstrike by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen,

which left scores of dead and wounded civilians in Sa’ada province in the far north of Yemen, calling for an international investigation to ensure that perpetrators don’t escape punishment.

The Saudi Arabian-led coalition’ warplanes bombed on Wednesday a hotel and an adjoining market in the Sahar district of Sa'ada province, killing at least 29 people and injuring 28 others.

The attack, which struck the Sahar district of the vast territory that borders Saudi Arabia, demolished the budget hotel and reduced market stalls outside to a heap of twisted sheet metal. Medics retrieved corpses from the rubble, according to Reuters. 

The military alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has staged countless air strikes against the neighboring, impoverished country, which – after more than two years of war, is facing specter of famine and the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. 

"This crime and the many others against humanity in Yemen will not go unpunished or unprosecuted," said Tawakkol Karman in a statement on social media.

Saudi Arabia and its allies, which receive logistical and intelligence help from the United States, claim they are fighting in Yemen in order to restore to power the internationally government represented by the legitimate president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi after the Iranian Houthi militia backed by forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh led their coup and took over the capital Sana’a in 2014.

According to the UN, more than 8,670 people, 60% of them civilians, have been killed and 49,900 injured in air strikes and fighting on the ground since March 2015.