In a serious escalation that exacerbates the already dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen, at least 15 civilians, including women and children, were injured following US airstrikes targeting populated areas in the capital, Sana’a, according to medical sources in the city.
The airstrikes hit Al-Arbaeen Street in the Sawwan area and Airport Street in the Bani Al-Harith district, where 14 civilians were injured at the first site and another civilian at the second. These figures are preliminary and expected to rise given the difficulty in reaching victims due to extensive destruction.
In Al-Jawf Governorate in the north of the country, US fighter jets carried out 11 air raids at dawn on Monday, including eight strikes on the Al-Hazm district and three on the Khabb wa ash Sha’af district, causing widespread panic among the civilian population. No confirmed information is yet available regarding the full extent of human or material losses.
These attacks are part of a continuous US military campaign since mid-March, involving more than 1,300 airstrikes and naval bombardments, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties across various Yemeni provinces.
The situation reflects a worsening humanitarian catastrophe, with grave and ongoing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, particularly through the deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure, threatening the lives of the population and undermining prospects for peace and stability in the region.
This US aggression coincides with Washington’s continued military support for Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, which has so far resulted in over 170,000 Palestinian casualties, the majority of them women and children, along with more than 11,000 missing persons—acts that amount to daily crimes of genocide witnessed by the world.
Civilians in Yemen and Palestine continue to pay a heavy price for military policies that disregard the most basic ethical and humanitarian principles, amid a glaring absence of meaningful international accountability or decisive action to halt this ongoing bloodshed.
