Yemen: The Houthi terrorist militias are committing new massacres

The Houthi terrorist militias have committed a new massacre against Yemeni civilians in the governorates of Shabwah and Taiz, in which many innocent people were killed.

Iran-affiliated Houthi militias targeted a residential house in Shabwah and a school in Taiz, hours after a gas station was bombed.

The death toll rose to 12 after Houthi militias fired a ballistic missile at a gas station in Ain district, northwest of Shabwah governorate in southern Yemen.

The Media Center of the Giants Brigades, whose forces are based in the same District, said: The Houthi group targeted the Abu Sar al-Aqili station with a ballistic missile.

The blast caused extensive damage and set fire to a number of citizens’ cars, the center said.
A number of social media activists circulated a video showing the Abu Sar al-Aqili station in the Jaadar area caught fire, reporting civilian casualties.

The station is located in the Jaadar area of Ain Shabwah directorate, which is adjacent to the administrative district of Harib province.

Forces from the Giants’ Brigades and government forces took control of Ain District a few weeks ago after the Houthis had controlled it since the beginning of October, and the military theater of operations moved to Harib in Marib.

The Houthi group has previously targeted gas stations in areas of Marib province; this led to the death and injury of civilians, the most recent of which was the targeting of a station in the Al-Rawdha neighborhood, which resulted in the death and injury of 14 civilians, including children.

In another crime, Houthi militias targeted a residential house in the town of Minawi in Ain District with a ballistic missile; one civilian was killed and two others were injured, in an initial toll.

The Houthis committed a third massacre in Taiz, with militias launching a bombing with a bomb that targeted a school in the town of Himyar in the district of Maqbanah in the west of the province.
Houthi militia bombarded the al-Huda School in Himyar; one child was killed instantly, and six people were injured in a preliminary count.

The Yemeni government condemned in the strongest terms the Houthi attacks on civilian objects crowded with civilians in Shabwah and Taiz.

In a post on his Twitter account, Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism in the Islamic government Muammar Al-Eryani said: “We condemn in the strongest terms the crime of targeting by the Houthi militia of Iran a gas station in the Jaadar area with an Iranian-made ballistic missile; that resulted in civilian casualties”.

He added: “These heinous crimes are an extension of the systematic killing of Yemenis by the Houthi terrorist militia since its coup against the state using Iranian weapons smuggled from ballistic missiles and drones, which have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly”.

The Yemeni official called on the international ‏community and the United Nations to re-list militias and to prosecute and try their leaders in the International Criminal Court for their crimes against the Yemeni people.

The Houthi militias have escalated their targeting of residential neighborhoods in Yemeni cities as part of revenge crimes they seek to commit to compensate their field defeats in crimes that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.