Ministry of Health: Death toll of coalition crime in Jawf rises to 35

SANAA, Feb. 18 (YPA) – The Ministry of Health said that the final toll of the US-backed Saudi-led coalition crime in al-Maslub district in Jawf province has risen to 58 civilian casualties, most of them children.

Ministry of health spokesman Dr. Yousef al-Hadhari said the number of martyrs was 35, including 26 children, while 23 were injured, including 18 children.

He noted that the Saudi-led aggression coalition warplanes conducted a number of raids during the early hours of Saturday morning, targeting citizens while they were sleeping in their homes.

He condemned the continuous committing of massacres and crimes against the children and women of Yemen in every village, directorate and governorate in the light of shameful silence of the Security Council, the United Nations and the international community.

The spokesman Dr. Yousef al-Hadhari said that the  international silence over these crimes has encouraged the coalition to commit this crime, which has claimed the lives of dozens of children and women.

“We do not know what the legal and humanitarian justification on which the United Nations is based in its silence on such crimes, but it is a partner in crimes, aggression and siege, even if it does not disclose it,” he said.

The ministry’s spokesman blamed the United Nations for the humanitarian and moral responsibility for the bloodshed of the coalition of aggression in Yemen.

He called on the international community, organizations and every free world to speak out to condemn and denounce these crimes and to call for the perpetrators to be brought to court for their punishment.

He also called for the lifting of the embargo against Yemen and an end to the aggression, stressing the health  and humanitarian disaster caused by the aggression affected all Yemenis and children in particular.

E.M