HRW Compares Saudi Aggression to ’’Israeli’ Crimes’, Describes it as ’War Crime’

Local Editor

The Saudi aggression against Yemen in terms of its style of shelling and targeting civilians, warnings of vacating cities, and committing massacres matches those of the ’Israeli’ attacks on Lebanon and Occupied Palestine.

The executive director of Human Rights Watch [HRW] organization, Kenneth Roth, described the Saudi aggression against Yemen as a ’war crime’ similar to the ’Israelis’ in a tweet on the official page of the social networking Twitter site on Friday.

’A war crime for Saudis [like ’Israelis’] to treat civilians as legitimate targets if they don’t heed warning to leave’, he said in the tweet.

 

Roth’s comment came as the spokesman of the US- led Saudi aggression, Ahmed Asiri, declared all regions of the province of Saada in north Yemen a military target, beginning from the evening of Friday, May 8, 2015, and his call for citizens to leave before sunset.

The province of Saada, which most of its inhabitants refused to leave, has since yesterday evening been exposed to the most violent, aggressive raids which targeted houses and infrastructure, and after cutting the communications, the province of Saada has become isolated from the world.

Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United Nations mandate - in a bid to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

 

Thousands have been martyred and injured as a result of the Saudi military aggression against Yemen, with the vast majority of them being civilians.

According to the World Health Organization [WHO], 1,244 Yemenis lost their lives and 5,044 others were injured from March 19 to April 27. According to the WHO, hundreds of women and children are among the victims.