Sana'a:The National Human Rights Commission has issued a strong condemnation of recent violent acts committed by Saudi-led forces, targeting civilians and public service facilities across several Yemeni governorates.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Commission reported that a woman in the village of Tabat Al-Aqroud, located in the Al-Mesrakh district of Taiz governorate, was struck by sniper fire from Saudi-led forces, marking a deliberate attack on an unarmed civilian.
The Commission highlighted that Saudi-led aircraft targeted a school, a health unit, and a pharmacy in the Zurayqat Al-Sham sub-district of Al-Maqatirah District, Lahj governorate. These attacks on educational and medical facilities have deprived citizens of their fundamental rights to education and healthcare, violating the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting such infrastructure.
In Sa'ada governorate, two airstrikes by Saudi-led aircraft were reported south of Sa'ada city, escalating the aggression against densely populated civilian areas. Additionally, in Taiz Governorate, a massacre at Al-Makhaf popular market resulted in 12 deaths, including eight children, with 14 others wounded.
The Human Rights Authority noted that three more individuals, including a child, succumbed to injuries from the Al-Makhaf market massacre earlier in November. Further, several citizens were injured in airstrikes targeting residential homes in the Al-Za'azi' sub-district of Al-Shamayatayn District, which destroyed homes occupied by women, children, and the elderly.
The Authority emphasized that targeting markets, schools, clinics, pharmacies, roads, and homes, alongside the sniping of women, constitutes a systematic assault on civilians and a war crime. It dismissed claims of military targets at these locations as fabrications, asserting that all sites were civilian in nature.
The Human Rights Authority holds the Saudi-led aggression criminally responsible for these actions and calls for prosecution in international courts. It urges the United Nations, Human Rights Council, and international organizations to condemn these crimes.
