Sana'a: The Yemeni Center for Human Rights condemned the Zionist aggression that targeted areas in the capital, Sana'a, and Al-Jawf Province yesterday, Wednesday, resulting in the death of 35 people and injuries to 131 others, according to preliminary statistics.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Center stated in a press release that the aggressive airstrikes carried out by the Israeli entity directly targeted civilians, civilian facilities, and cultural properties, in clear violation of international humanitarian law and all international conventions and treaties.
The statement noted that the bombing struck several vital sites, including residential neighborhoods, a health sector oil station, and the headquarters of the newspapers 26 September and Al-Yemen. It also caused significant damage to the National Museum building in the city center, in addition to targeting the Civil Affairs building and the Central Bank branch in Al-Hazm city in Al-Jawf Governorate.
The Center described the targeting of cultural property as a flagrant violation of the 1954 Hague Convention, which prohibits attacks on cultural sites.
The Center classified these attacks as amounting to war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, emphasizing the need to activate international accountability mechanisms to hold the perpetrators of these violations to justice.
The Yemeni Center for Human Rights called on the international community, the United Nations, and the Security Council to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and take a clear stance on this aggression. It urged an end to double standards in addressing violations and condemned Israeli crimes against civilians in Yemen with the same firmness applied to others.
The statement also called on international organizations, foremost among them Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, to document the crime and issue detailed reports, stressing that this attack is part of a recurring pattern of assaults previously documented, including strikes on Hodeidah ports and Sana'a Airport.
The Center appealed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to condemn the targeting of the National Museum and to cooperate with relevant authorities to assess the damages, noting that silence in the face of attacks on cultural heritage would constitute complicity in erasing the identity and history of an entire nation.
The Center urged the Arab peoples and freedom-loving nations worldwide to move beyond verbal condemnations and take decisive stances against normalization-supporting governments, calling for the activation of economic boycott campaigns on Israeli goods and products.
The Yemeni Center for Human Rights reiterated its commitment to continue documenting crimes and violations suffered by the Yemeni people and to persistently demand accountability, emphasizing that these crimes will not be subject to a statute of limitations.