SANA’A (Dispatches) – 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 every day.
The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development in a 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,” it added.
“The latest crime falls within the framework of daily attacks and acts of aggressions that Saudi Arabia and its 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.
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.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ministry of Health has warned that more than 5,000 patients with kidney failure are “at risk of death” due to a lack of medical supplies in the aftermath of the years-long Saudi blockade and war against the impoverished Arab country.
Anis al-Asbahi, the ministry’s spokesman, raised the alarm in an interview with the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Saturday as the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen and the blockage of the county’s ports drag on for eight years.
The lives of thousands of Yemeni patients with renal failure are at stake and threatened with death as a result of the near depletion of dialysis drugs and supplies, Asbahi warned, saying, “Drugs and dialysis supplies are running out, and we do not have sufficient stocks in dialysis centers, except for a few that can only hold out for the month of March.”
Asbahi added that if they do not receive an emergency shipment of medicine in the current month, they will face a “catastrophe” that endangers the lives of more than 5000 kidney failure patients who need regular dialysis sessions, as well as 500 patients who need kidney transplants.
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 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.