118 violations documented by the Information Center last December in Taiz
Taiz / Special:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) announced that it had documented 118 cases of violations against civilians in Taiz Governorate, during the month of December 2021.
In its monthly report entitled “Moqbna Forgotten Tragedy”, the center said that its field team documented the killing of 35 civilians, including two women and 8 children. The Houthi militias caused the deaths of 25 civilians, including two women and 4 children.
Where 4 civilians, including a woman and two children, were killed by mortars and heavy artillery, while one child was killed by a militia sniper and 3 civilians were killed by direct fire, while 8 civilians, including a woman, were killed by the explosion of landmines planted by the Houthi militia, and about 8 civilians were killed by a ballistic missile, while one child was killed. Houthi drone strikes.
The air raids of the Arab coalition killed 6 civilians, including 3 children, while one civilian was shot dead by gunmen outside the framework of the state, a civilian was killed by a hand grenade thrown by an armed outside the framework of the state, and another civilian was killed by an explosive device detonated by unknown persons, and one child was killed by bullets attributed to an unknown gunman.
The field center team was able to monitor the injury of 42 civilians, including 4 women and 13 children. The Houthi militia injured 21 civilians, including two women and 9 children. Eight civilians, including 5 children, were injured by various artillery shells, while 4 civilians, including a woman and two children, were wounded by a militia sniper. A woman and one child were wounded by a Houthi militia drone, while 6 civilians, including one child, were injured by landmines planted by the Houthi militia, and a civilian was wounded by direct fire from a Houthi gunman.
The field team documented the injury of 4 civilians, including two children and a woman, as a result of an airstrike by the Arab coalition, and 5 civilians, including two children and a woman, were wounded by gunfire from unknown gunmen.
The field team documented one case of arrest carried out by the Houthi militia, and one case of mass kidnapping carried out by a military campaign without any orders from the prosecution or the judiciary.
The team also documented two cases of mass forced displacement and displacement that occurred as a result of the intense and direct bombardment and campaigns of raids and pursuits of a number of Al-Kadha and Al-Hima villages by the Houthi militia.
The field team monitored 37 cases of damage to public and private property, including one to public property, where a school was damaged as a result of the Houthi militia’s bombing with a ballistic missile.
Furthermore, 36 cases of violations of private property were documented, including the damage of 4 houses completely, 11 houses partially, and 3 vehicles as a result of the bombing, and the bombing of 3 houses and the booby-trapping of a number of houses by the Houthi militia.
It was also documented that 5 houses were partially damaged by the bombing of other houses by the Houthi militia, and a bus and a private vehicle were completely damaged by the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia.
A private vehicle was completely damaged by Houthi shelling with a drone, a truck loaded with fireworks was burned by Houthi gunmen, two houses were partially damaged by bullets fired by unknown gunmen, and two houses and a vehicle were completely damaged by an airstrike of the Arab coalition.
The report dealt with the violations that affected the Maqbna district, which increased significantly during the month of December, and the Houthis used its residents as human shields by placing their military vehicles next to citizens’ homes and in schools inside residential villages during the air pursuit by the Arab coalition aircraft.
It also displaced the residents of the villages of Wadi Al-Marir in the west of Taiz Governorate and also turned their homes into military barracks.
The report touched on the increase in Houthi attacks on residential neighborhoods and the increase in the number of mine victims, as well as an assassination attempt and an assassination attempt on military leaders by unknown gunmen.
The report indicated that 3 bloody massacres were committed by the Houthi militia, two of which killed 9 civilians, including a child, and wounded others, including 4 children, while the Arab coalition committed one massacre through its aerial bombardment, killing 5 civilians, including two children, and wounding one civilian.
