Evidence of Using Internationally Prohibited Weapons by US-Saudi Aggression Appears in Yemeni Children

Ignoring the crimes of the US-Saudi aggression by the international community, and the Security Council contributed to encouraging it to use more prohibited weapons in Yemen.

Yemen does not have a scientific structure on the basis of which it can be revealed the truth about the biological warfare that the country is exposed to, but the statistics of the health sector in Yemen indicate an unprecedented rise in the rates of birth defects, and an increase in the number of people with cancer.

Viral and bacterial diseases also have spread among children, who are the most prominent affected by the crimes of the coalition and the silence of the international community.

The Secretary-General of the Pediatric Society, Dr. Noura Nour El-Din, said                                      last December, that there is a need “to document cases of congenital malformations in fetuses and put them in a museum for scientific studies,” stressing that “the air, water and food of Yemenis have become polluted by the toxic gases from weapons and forbidden germ bombs that the US-Saudi warplanes drop on Yemen, indicating that Yemen is suffering from the worst epidemic catastrophe.”

Dr. Noura Nour El-Din explained that there are many epidemics that kill Yemeni children, such as “pneumonia, measles, diphtheria, hepatitis, acute flaccid paralysis, meningitis, cholera, pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis, diarrhea, celery, dengue, parasites and viral bacterial diseases, in addition to drug resistance and the spread of mental disorders among children as a result of the war on Yemen.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the National Center for Oncology, Dr. Abdullah Thawabeh, announced that Yemen witnessed an increase in the incidence of cancer during the past seven years of the war, by more than 50 percent compared to before.

Recently, the Executive Center for Mine Action announced that the internationally banned bomb, which targeted the collecting area of the coalition’s cluster bombs and weapons remnants in Al-Subaha area is emitting dangerous radiation.

In a press conference, the director of the Executive Center for Mine Action Brigadier Ali Safra, confirmed that the Defense Ministry inspected the collecting area of unexploded remnants in the Al-Subaha area and detected dangerous radiations. Safra called on civilians not to enter the area recently targeted by the US-Saudi aggression in Al-Subaha.

The director of the center pointed out that these bombs were used by the coalition in many areas in Hodeidah, Al-Baidha’a, the well-known crime on Mustaba in addition to the bombing of the Palestinian Interior Ministry building in Gaza Strip previously by the Zionist entity.

On Wednesday, The director of the Executive Center for Mine Action Brigadier Ali Safra revealed that the remnants of the US-Saudi aggression, targeted by the aggression’s airstrike in the gathering area in Bani Matar, amounted to 350 tons of explosives and dozens of cluster bombs.

He stressed the importance of promoting awareness about the dangers of cluster bombs and other remnants used by the US-Saudi aggression. He also pointed out that the tasks and activities of the Executive Center are humanitarian and have nothing to do with politics and conflict, as promoted by the media of aggression.

The statement stated that the bomb is characterized by the ability to instantly kill and divide into small lethal parts, and it forces the infection to amputate the affected limbs because of its penetration of bones and tissues, causing deep burns, laceration of tissues, veins and arteries, and the occurrence of large bloody bleeding in the affected organs.

It pointed out that the legal bases on which the international prohibition of these bombs and missiles used in depleted uranium is based on the fact that they are toxic weapons with indiscriminate effects. Their use does not constitute a military necessity, in addition to the fact that they cause extensive and long lasting damage to the environment.

The Executive Center for Mine Action enumerated the health and environmental damages and effects of using JDAM bombs, indicating that their use leads to a wide spread of cancerous diseases, congenital malformations and fatal births, affects the immune and nervous systems, and leads to genetic abnormalities.

The negative effects of these weapons on humans, plants and animals appear in the medium and long term, destroying and harming the environment, polluting the soil and air, poisoning groundwater and eliminating normal life in the affected areas for millions of years.

The statement reviewed the most important international reports and investigations issued by organizations and research centers on the negative effects of the use of deadly bombs. Among these reports is “New Weapon Committee” by the United Nations expert, Jean François Fechino. It was about the concentration of minerals in the soil that was conducted by a group of Italian independent scientists and doctors (NWRC) in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the report of the new weapons committee on the poisoning of the soil of the Gaza Strip.

The US-Saudi aggression targeted the waste gathering area of the Executive Center for Mine Action in Bani Matar district on February 18, with the aim of concealing evidence related to war crimes against Yemen.

The Executive Center for Mine Action pointed out that the area of gathering remnants of the US-Saudi aggression was known and had been visited by the United Nations.