The Yemeni Center for Human Rights condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against Yemen and its targeting of civilian and service facilities, including the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Issa, Al-Salif, and the central electricity station in Ras Katnib.

In a statement, the Center considered the Zionist enemy’s targeting of ports that serve as vital humanitarian corridors for delivering food and medicine to millions of Yemenis as a deliberate war crime aimed at starving the Yemeni people and destroying their livelihoods, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law.

The statement affirmed that these crimes explicitly violate international conventions, including the Geneva Conventions (1949) and Additional Protocol I (1977), which prohibit targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, as well as the Rome Statute, which criminalizes the widespread destruction of civilian property and prohibits starvation as a method of warfare.

The statement noted that this is further confirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 3314 (1974), Article 3(c), which defines the targeting of civilian infrastructure as an act of aggression, as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Article 11), which guarantees civilians' right to food and water.

It stated that targeting humanitarian ports disrupts 70% of aid deliveries to Yemen, exacerbating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN, due to years of blockade. This has led to the deaths of tens of thousands from denied access to food and medicine, the collapse of the healthcare sector, and catastrophic levels of malnutrition among children and women.

The statement emphasized that the targeting of civilian facilities in Yemen is part of a systematic genocide, obliging the Yemeni people to take all necessary measures for legitimate self-defense of their right to life and dignity. It stressed that the victims' right to justice does not expire with time.

The Center warned the world that its silence amounts to complicity in the ongoing crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza, Yemen, and other Arab and Islamic countries. It renewed its condemnation of the international community’s silence, particularly the UN Security Council, which has failed to issue any condemnation despite civilian casualties since the aggression began.

The Yemeni Center for Human Rights called on Arab and Islamic governments to sever ties with Israel, prosecute its leaders before the International Criminal Court for their crimes against civilians, and launch pressure campaigns to halt arms supplies to Israel and boycott companies supporting it.