The National Human Rights Commission strongly condemned and denounced the horrific crime committed by the Saudi enemy’s warplanes by targeting homes and civilian gatherings in the districts of Dhubab and Maqbanah in Taiz Governorate. The initial toll was three civilian citizens killed, including two children, and two others injured with varying degrees of wounds.
In a statement issued by the commission, it condemned the direct and deliberate targeting by the Saudi enemy of the government complex in Khadir District in Taiz Governorate, a civilian service facility. The attack initially resulted in a number of civilian employees and citizens being injured, the destruction of the government building, and the destruction of the documents and public services it contained that serve the people of the district.
It considered the deliberate targeting of populated areas inhabited by civilians and civilian objects a flagrant and grave violation of all international rules and norms. At the same time, it constitutes a fully-fledged war crime and a crime against humanity, adding to the record of the enemy’s crimes against the Yemeni people.
The statement pointed out that targeting civilians and children constitutes a blatant breach of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law embodied in the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution, as well as Security Council resolutions concerning the protection of civilians and civilian objects in armed conflicts.
The Human Rights Commission affirmed that targeting government and service facilities and civilian infrastructure is not an accidental incident, but rather comes within a systematic policy aimed at striking state institutions, disrupting citizens’ interests, and increasing their suffering, which amounts to collective punishment prohibited under international law.
The statement said that this bombardment violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, which provides for the general protection of civilian objects and stipulates that they must not be the object of attack.
The National Human Rights Commission called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to shoulder their moral and legal responsibilities, break their shameful silence, and exert pressure to halt the targeting of civilians and civilian objects. It held the Saudi aggression coalition fully legally and criminally responsible for these crimes and for any consequences resulting from them.
The commission called on all local and international human rights organizations to document these crimes and condemn their perpetrators, affirming that it will document these crimes and submit their files to the relevant international bodies, on the grounds that such crimes do not lapse by the passage of time.
