Hawzah News Agency- In a statement, the commission said that in a new war crime adding to the black record soaked in the blood of the Yemeni people, Saudi enemy warplanes directly and deliberately targeted the mothers and children's hospital in Al-Shamaytin district in Taiz Province.
The statement noted that the attack led to the destruction of large parts of the hospital's vital sections—including the neonatal unit, maternity ward, and emergency department—and its complete removal from service, at a time when the hospital was full of pregnant women, infants, and newborns.
The commission stressed that targeting a medical facility protected under international humanitarian law—especially a specialized hospital for mothers and children—was not a military error or mistaken target, but a criminal decision based on prior planning and a full-fledged war crime under Article 18 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Article 12 of Additional Protocol I, which criminalize the bombing of hospitals and medical units.
The commission asked: "What does the Saudi enemy want from a newborn in an incubator and a mother on a delivery bed? What dirty military plan targets a woman and the sound of her baby's crying with F-16 and Typhoon fighter jets?!"
The statement added that the Saudi enemy, after failing to confront men on the frontlines of honor and heroism in Saada, the border areas, Al-Jawf, the western coast, and other areas, vents the bitterness of its defeat on mothers and the bodies of children.
The Human Rights Commission held the Saudi regime—and at the same time all suppliers of weapons and ammunition and its political backers, namely the US and UK governments—fully legally and criminally responsible for this crime.
The commission also expressed astonishment at the silence of the United Nations, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF, telling them: "Enough silence… enough complicity… You were silent when they targeted schools, you were silent when they hit markets, factories, and farms, and today a maternity hospital was targeted; what will it be tomorrow?"
It added: "Your silence is no longer neutrality, but partnership in the crime. Your statements of concern are not even worth the gas and cotton stained with the blood of mothers in Al-Shamaytin."
The commission stressed that Yemen reserves its right to pursue and prosecute the leaders of the aggressors as war criminals in international courts, and that these crimes will not be subject to any statute of limitations.
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