6 Years of Blood: Saudi-led Aggression Escalates Its Crimes against Civilians in Yemen
The residents of Yemen woke up, Wednesday, to a horrific crime committed by the coalition’s warplanes, at a wedding ceremony in Al-Jawf governorate, northeastern Yemen. The number of victims reached more than 25 people, mostly women and children, in an unlimited outcome.
Local sources said that coalition fighter jets carried out several raids on a wedding party in the home of Mabkhoot Al Marzouqi in Al-Hazm district, committing a heinous crime against more than 25 children and women, 16 a badly burned bodies of children and women were transferred to Marib Hospital, while 8 Bodies to the Al-Hazm Hospital.
During the past 14 days, coalition fighter jets have committed three consecutive crimes, the first was on June 2, when eight civilians were killed by the aggression’s raids in the Magash area of Sa’adah governorate. On June 12th, the Saudi warplanes committed another massacre targeting a citizen’s house in Washha in Hajjah governorate, leaving ten people dead and two others injured, all of them women and children. Just two days later, Wednesday 15 June, Saudi aerial aggression committed the horrific massacre by targeting a wedding in Al-Jawf governorate.
For the sixth consecutive year of aggression against Yemen, coalition crimes extend to Yemeni civilians, leaving daily humanitarian crimes. The number of its victims, according to the last statistic of Eye of Humanity Center (Ain al-Insiyah Center) for Human Rights and Development at the end of last year, reached 16,618 civilians, including 3,725 children and 2,357 women, while the number of injured people reached 5,964 civilians, including 3,941 children and 2721 women.
Yemeni activists considered the increase in aggression crimes with this brutality during the past days and its persistence in killing women and children comes in light of the complicity of the United Nations, considering the United Nations Secretary-General move of taking the coalition off from the black list of killers of children and women, as a green light to commit more crimes.
On March 24, 2020, Amnesty International accused the coalition forces of committing grave human rights violations that they classified as war crimes.
The organization also indicated that more than 233,000 Yemenis have been killed and injured. The spiralling humanitarian crisis has left approximately 14 million people on the brink of famine, it added.
This comes in light of the coalition’s brutal killing machine killing of innocent civilians in Yemen, with the support and participation of the United States of America, Britain and France.
The United Nations Panel of Experts to Investigate Human Rights Violations in Yemen, in its successive reports, accused the countries of aggression of crimes amounting to crimes against humanity, through the indiscriminate raids by their warplanes against civilians and civilian targets in Yemen, without observing the binding rules by avoiding civilians during armed conflicts, imposed by international and humanitarian law.