Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated that Saudi Arabia is aiming to destroy Yemen’s economy by deliberately striking Yemeni factories, warehouses, farms and power plants.
The New York-based rights group made the revelation in a report titled "Bombing Businesses," which was published on Monday.
The report examined 17 air raids on "13 civilian economic sites" that claimed the lives of 130 civilians and wounded 171 others.
The HRW further said the airstrikes could mount to war crimes.
The "air strikes on civilian factories appear intended to damage Yemen’s shattered economy long into the future," said Priyanka Motaparthy, a senior emergencies researcher at the HRW, and an author of the 59-page report.
"The airstrikes have compounded an already bleak situation in which more than 80 percent of Yemen’s population requires some form of assistance," the rights body warned.
Late in June, Amnesty International and HRW called for the suspension of Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council over the indiscriminate airstrikes being carried out in Yemen, saying Riyadh has exploited its position in the 47-member UN human rights panel to torpedo an independent international investigation into possible war crimes in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia is continuing its airstrikes on Yemen in a blatant violation of a UN-brokered truce.
Saudi warplanes bombed the Sanhan district of Sana’a Province on Monday, leaving an unspecified number of civilians injured, according to Yemen’s Khabar News Agency.
Saudi airstrikes also hit the al-Amaleqa camp in the Harf Sufyan district of Amran Province. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The Saudi attacks come despite a ceasefire agreement that had been announced before the start of UN-mediated talks in Kuwait between the representatives of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi - who has resigned as Yemen’s president but seeks to get back to power - and a delegation comprising of the Houthi Ansarullah movement and its allies.
Saudi Arabia launched military strikes against Yemen on March 26, 2015 in a bid to reinstate Hadi, who was a staunch ally of Riyadh as president.
More than 10,000 people have been killed and at least 16,000 others injured since the onset of the aggression.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
