Rights Group Condemns Saudi Army’s Targeting of Villages, Farms in Sa’adah

A rights group has condemned the targeting of Saudi forces on villages and civilian farms in the districts of Shada and Qatabir in Sa’adah Governorate through artillery shelling and machine gun fire.

The Eye for Humanity Center for Rights and Development confirmed that this act of aggression resulted in the killing of a citizen in Shada district and the injury of two African migrants in the Qatabir district in the past hours. It noted that these heinous crimes, along with their predecessors, are considered crimes against humanity according to international humanitarian law.

The center also condemned the silence of the international community, organizations, and international bodies, particularly the United Nations, which stand idly by in the face of the crimes committed by the aggressor countries and their mercenaries against the Yemeni People.

On a daily basis, the US-Saudi aggression continues to bomb the border areas with various types of weapons, causing the death and injury of hundreds of citizens and extensive destruction in villages, homes, farms and properties in the border areas.

In August, Human Rights Watch documented in a report that the Saudi border guards fired at Ethiopian migrants while they were trying to cross from Yemen. However, the report did not address the suffering of Yemeni civilians, of whom thousands were killed and injured as a result of the Saudi attacks. This is in addition to the destruction of entire villages, farms, properties, and the displacement of tens of thousands of people from their areas.