Global action urged after Israel’s deadly blitz on Yemen
The Iranian Foreign Ministry vehemently censured Israel’s “criminal” airstrikes on Yemen’s infrastructure and residential areas, including media headquarters, calling on the United Nations Security Council and the international community to take urgent action against the regime’s atrocities.
"The repeated acts of aggression by the Zionist regime against regional countries, along with the ongoing genocide and killing of innocent people in the occupied Palestine, have not only subjected globally accepted normative, legal foundations to unprecedented erosion, but have also trampled upon all moral and human principles,” the ministry said in a statement.
A day after bombing Qatar’s Doha, Israeli airstrikes on the Yemeni provinces of Sana’a and al-Jawf on Wednesday killed at least 46 people, including journalists, and wounded 160 others.
In a statement, Israel’s military confirmed the attack, saying it struck sites in the two areas.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry condoled with Yemen over the deaths of innocent people during the Israeli regime’s military aggression, praising the nation’s courageous solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians.
It further emphasized the need for unity and cooperation among Islamic countries to confront the usurping entity’s expansionism and warmongering.
The Israeli air raids on Yemen targeted civilian sites, among them the offices of the 26 September and al-Yemen media outlets, killing journalists and bystanders.
Yemen’s official Saba news agency said the attack was part of Israel’s “blatant attempts to silence the free media that continues to expose its crimes and its rampant violence in Palestine, Yemen, and other countries in the region.”
The latest violence came after Yemen’s prime minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, nine ministers and two cabinet officials were killed in an Israeli strike as they attended a government meeting in the Sana’a area last month.
The killings were the most high-profile acts of assassination of Yemeni officials during nearly two years of conflict with Israel over the Gaza war.
The Yemeni Armed Forces began their campaign against Tel Aviv, attacking Israeli-linked ships as well as striking targets in the occupied territories in November 2023, a month after the regime unleashed its genocide in Gaza.
Israel has carried out rounds of deadly airstrikes across Yemen in flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.