Geneva – SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties stated that the airstrikes carried out by Israeli occupation warplanes on the Yemeni capital Sana’a this afternoon, which targeted vital civilian facilities, left a number of civilians dead and injured. The organization stressed that these attacks constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the targeting of civilian objects or exposing innocent populations to danger, warning that continued disregard of such crimes will only lead to further human suffering and gross violations.

The organization reported that the attacks resulted in the death of two civilians and the injury of 35 others, including women and children, following the bombardment of the Oil Company station on 60th Street and the Haziz power station south of the capital. SAM noted that this toll clearly demonstrates that civilians were the actual targets of the strikes, rather than any alleged military sites.

The organization further pointed out that international law, including the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, considers the targeting of civilians a war crime that requires accountability and prosecution.

It added that targeting civilian facilities protected under the Geneva Conventions constitutes a war crime, as international law explicitly prohibits attacks on vital service facilities upon which the civilian population depends for their daily survival. SAM underlined that such attacks exacerbate Yemen’s ongoing humanitarian crisis and expose civilians to compounded risks, particularly in the absence of any effective protective measures.

The organization considered these indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks to be a blatant disregard for peremptory norms of international law, stressing that the persistent impunity enjoyed by perpetrators has contributed to the recurrence of such violations over the past years.

SAM emphasized that the repeated killing and injury of civilians demonstrates that Yemenis are trapped in a cycle of continuous violations without protection, urging the international community to take urgent and concrete measures to safeguard them.

The organization called for an independent and transparent international investigation into these crimes and for holding those responsible fully accountable without exception. It also urged the United Nations and the Human Rights Council to activate international protection mechanisms and ensure safeguards to prevent the recurrence of such grave violations.