Saudi war machine claiming Yemeni civilian lives every day, Rights organization says

An independent human rights organization has censured Saudi Arabia over its indiscriminate aerial raids and artillery attacks against residential neighbors in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, stating that the Riyadh regime’s war machine is claiming civilian lives in the war-battered Arab country each and every day.

The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development in a Friday statement denounced the Saudi artillery strikes against border regions in Sa’ada province, which left one civilian dead and eight others wounded earlier in the day.

“Saudi military units target villages, farms and civilians border areas with barrages of artillery rounds on a daily basis,” the center said.

“The Riyadh regime’s war machine continues to destroy buildings and kill innocent civilians in different parts of Yemen almost every day.

“The latest crime falls within the framework of daily attacks and acts of aggressions that Saudi Arabia and its Takfiri mercenaries continue to perpetrate against the Yemeni people in various areas of Yemen, and that the violations are unfortunately overlooked by the United Nations,” the statement read.

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Yemen’s prime minister says Saudi forces and their allied Takfiri militants are in control of oil fields and natural reserves in the impoverished country, exacerbating miseries there.

The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development also criticized the inaction of the international community and world bodies, particularly the United Nations, in the face of the criminal and brutal practices of Saudi forces and their allies.

Earlier this month a Yemeni human rights organization warned that the Saudi war on Yemen well as the crippling siege in the impoverished Arab country could result in the death of thousands of children suffering from cancer. 

Entisaf Organization for Women’s and Children’s Rights said in a statement on the occasion of World Cancer Day that more than 3,000 Yemeni children, who have developed cancer as a result of Saudi aggression and the tight land, air and sea blockade on the country, are now at significant risk of death.

The rights group criticized the international organizations and other relevant bodies for neglecting Yemeni cancer patients over the past years.

Enfisaf added that the incidence of leukemia is increasing among Yemeni children, saying the cases of kids suffering from blood cancer have soared from 300 to 700 in the capital Sana’a due to the use of internationally-banned weapons supplied by the United States and the United Kingdom and used by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

Washington chiefly responsible for humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen: Information minister

Yemen’s information minister says the US is responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in the Arab country.

Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and other Western states, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015.

The objective was to crush the popular Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen and reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

The Saudi-led coalition has failed to achieve any of its objectives, leaving hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and spawning the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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