On Thursday, Yemen was attacked with Israeli occupation airstrikes targetting vital civilian facilities in Sanaa and Hodeidah, resulting in the killing of 9 civilians and the injury of others.
The capital Sanaa and Hodeidah governorate were subjected to a series of airstrikes on two central power stations located south and north of the capital Sanaa, which led to widespread power outages in residential areas.
In Hodeidah, vital economic facilities were targeted, including the port of Hodeidah and the Ras Issa oil facility, which threatens to worsen the humanitarian situation in the country.
Local sources confirmed the killing of 9 civilians, including women and children, and the injury of 3 others.
The infrastructure has been severely damaged, with partial or complete destruction of power stations and oil facilities, which would cause economic paralysis and increase the suffering of the population who live in catastrophic humanitarian conditions.
These attacks represent an unprecedented escalation in the Israeli occupation’s gross violations of international humanitarian law, which stresses the need to protect civilians and vital facilities during armed conflicts.
These raids threaten to transform Yemen into a new arena for regional conflicts, amid a clear absence of international control or legal accountability.
The continued attacks on civilians and vital facilities in Yemen exacerbate the humanitarian crisis already there, and place the international community before its moral and legal responsibility, as international bodies are expected to take immediate action to stop these violations and ensure that those responsible are held accountable to preserves the dignity and lives of the Yemeni people.
