In the early hours of Sunday/Monday night, the Israeli occupation army launched heavy airstrikes targeting three seaports and a central power station in the Yemeni city of Hudaydah, a new escalation added to a long record of violations against civilians and infrastructure in the region.
According to Yemeni media, the strikes hit the ports of Hudaydah, Ras Issa, and Al-Salif, in addition to the Ras Kathib power station, a key civilian facility that supplies electricity to the city of Hudaydah.
This attack signals a dangerous escalation in the occupation’s behavior, as it now openly targets the territory of sovereign nations, blatantly violating the principles of international humanitarian law, particularly the distinction between military and civilian targets and the prohibition against striking infrastructure vital to civilian life.
The targeted power station is a civilian facility, and striking it threatens thousands of residents with the loss of essential services, constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and amounting to a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
While the occupation justifies its actions with alleged security pretexts, it deliberately disregards the catastrophic consequences of these operations on civilian populations, both in Yemen and Palestine, where massacres have been ongoing for nearly 21 months.
The Israeli aggression on Yemen coincides with the continued genocide in Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, and has resulted in over 193,000 Palestinian casualties, most of them women and children, in addition to more than 11,000 missing persons and widespread destruction of infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.
This conduct reflects the broader colonial policy pursued by the occupation, one of military expansion, refusal to withdraw from occupied territories in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and ongoing obstruction of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
While the occupation receives political and military support from major powers, millions of civilians in Gaza and Yemen remain exposed to death, destruction, and isolation, all in the absence of any meaningful international deterrent to restrain a state that continues to violate every legal and moral standard without accountability.
