Martyrs Foundation-Sana’a
The Saudi led aggression targeted a school in the residential area of Sawan, in capital Sana’a, killing 13 students and wounding more that 95 others, mostly children.
The Martyrs Foundation condemned the aggression bombing of a school in the Yemen’s capital, Sana, which killed and injured tens of schoolgirls and describing targeting civilians in residential neighborhoods and children in schools a war crime. This new crime will be added to the bloody record of the aggression and its despicable act of genocide. Its continuous targeting of civilians and infrastructure is criminalized by international human rights law and punishable by international criminal law because protecting people and protecting civilian infrastructure are core principles of international humanitarian law.
It also condemned the media misleading about this crime and other criminal massacre perpetrated by the aggression against the school girls in light of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
For more than four years, the country has been under a brutal war launched by Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies with the support of US and other European countries. The war has plunged the country in what the UN considers to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with four out of five Yemenis (24.1 million people) in need of some form of humanitarian assistance and protection.
It pointed out that the United Nations and other organizations unable to hold the forces of the aggression accountable for their brutal crimes committed against the Yemeni People for more than four years, calling for the formation of a neutral international commission to investigate all war crimes against Yemenis and to deliver the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.
