In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the Commission said: “Field reports indicate that the Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes targeting civilian sites, including Sayun Airport and areas in Al-Qatn District.”
The organization affirmed that the attacks are part of a power struggle and competing projects between the Saudi and Emirati occupying forces over Yemeni territory and its resources—a conflict whose cost is paid in Yemeni blood, resources, and infrastructure.
The organization considered the targeting of civilian infrastructure and public service facilities, especially airports, a full-fledged war crime and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, particularly the four Geneva Conventions.
It indicated that this reflects a clear intent on the part of the invading and occupying states to destroy Yemeni infrastructure, exacerbate human suffering, and fragment the social fabric of the Yemeni people, amidst the ongoing air, sea, and land blockade imposed on Yemen, which constitutes a form of collective punishment prohibited under international law.
The Human Rights Commission held the Saudi and Emirati regimes, and the states supporting them, foremost among them the United States and the occupying Zionist entity, fully legally and morally responsible for these crimes and violations, as they are active parties in the ongoing aggression against Yemen and the occupation of parts of its territory, and the resulting systematic violation of the Yemeni people’s right to life, security, and sovereignty.
It stressed that turning Yemeni territory into an arena for settling scores between occupying powers constitutes a grave violation of the principles of the UN Charter, undermines regional peace and security, and exacerbates the suffering of civilians, especially women, children, and the elderly.
The Commission called upon the United Nations, the Security Council, and the Human Rights Council to uphold their legal and moral responsibilities and launch an independent international investigation into the crimes committed by the invading and occupying states against Yemeni civilians.
The statement also called upon international human rights and humanitarian organizations to unequivocally condemn these crimes, document them, and refer them to the relevant international judicial mechanisms. It urged the international community to exert serious pressure to halt the aggression, end the occupation, lift the air blockade imposed on Yemen, and guarantee the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure.
The Human Rights Commission reiterated its position that the crimes of aggression and occupation, and the targeting of civilians and infrastructure, will not be subject to any statute of limitations, and that their perpetrators will remain liable to national and international legal accountability, no matter how much time passes.
