Yemeni Human Rights Committee: The Saudi attacks cause more than 16,800 martyrs and 19,000 wounded

 The Committee on Human Rights and Public Freedoms and civil society organizations in the Yemeni Shura Council (Parliament) has confirmed that the Saudi aggression against Yemen has caused 16,802 martyrs since March 2015, including 3753 children and 2,361 women.

The Committee said that the number of injured is 19,375 people, including 4,036 children and 2994 women, in addition to the displacement of more than a million Yemenis from their homes and villages.

In a report presented on January 10th, the committee said that the tragic situation in Yemen is deteriorating terribly in all governorates and regions due to the increase in human rights violations and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the extent of destruction caused by the Saudi aggression.

The report indicated that the unjustified Saudi attacks affected thousands of civilians and led to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes.

 The report said that as a result of the siege imposed by the forces of aggression, the poverty rate rose to more than eighty percent, the unemployment rate rose to 65 percent, and more than 60 percent suffered from famine.

The report indicated that the aggression left more than 3553 schools destroyed and damaged by direct bombardment in 22 governorates and more than 42 governmental and civil universities were totally or partially destroyed, while 65 technical institutes and community colleges were totally or partially destroyed as well.

The report documented the aggression targeting 13,324 agricultural sites, the destruction of more than 869 food stores, the burning and destruction of what was inside them, the burning and damage of 768 locomotives and food carriers, as well as the destruction of 671 central markets, the destruction and burning of 10,998 food shops, the destruction of 3,500 agricultural houses, and the contamination of more than 1868 installations and water networks.

The aggression killed more than 3 million livestock as a result of its bombing, and destroyed 395 poultry farms and 348 factories owned by private and public sector companies, and destroyed 5 grain mills, while depriving more than 40 thousand fishermen from practicing their profession, killing and wounding more than 500 fishermen and burning their boats.

According to the report, the direct bombing destroyed more than 3,930 roads and bridges and the burning of 4 civil aircrafts.

The report indicated that 472 facilities, stations and oil and gas tankers were destroyed by the aggression.

Inas Abdulkareem