SANA’A (Dispatches) – Many women and children were among the more than 3,000 civilians killed or injured in the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes against Yemen in 2022, a rights group said.
The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development issued a report, showing that the total number of casualties was 3,083 during last year’s war on Yemen, which included the death of 643 citizens and the wounding of 2,440 others.
The report said 102 children lost their lives and 353 others sustained injuries, in addition to 27 women killed and 97 others wounded.
The Yemeni rights group confirmed that 514 men were killed and 1,990 others injured.
As for the damage to Yemen’s infrastructure in 2022, the report said the Saudi-led coalition warplanes destroyed 14,367 homes, 134 mosques, 5 tourist facilities, 12 hospitals, 64 educational centers, 1987 agricultural fields and seven media facilities.
The aggression also destroyed 22 power stations, 974 roads and bridges, 46 communication towers and stations, 334 tanks and water stations, and 57 government facilities.
The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development also reported that the coalition destroyed many business firms, which amount to 229 business facility. In addition, the warplanes targeted 1,022 means of transportation, 29 chicken farms, 37 medicine storehouses, 95 food trucks, 21 fuel stations and 13 fuel tankers.
Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and other Western states, launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015.
The objective was to crush the 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.
In another development, the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights has condemned in the strongest terms the recent execution of two nationals in Saudi Arabia, calling on international human rights organizations to take a firm stance against the appalling atrocity as the kingdom executed twice as many people last year as it did in 2021.
The ministry announced in a statement that the 27-year-old Yemeni citizen Mohammad Muqbil al-Wasel, who hailed from the southwestern province of Dhamar, and Shajaa Salah Mahdi Jamil, 29, were put to death by Saudi authorities following unfair and summary trials, and the victims were deprived of the right to have a lawyer assist in their defense.
The statement noted that Saudi officials have not provided any information about the circumstances of the executions to the relatives of the two young Yemeni men, stating that the move constitutes a torture, ill-treatment and criminal act under international human rights conventions.