Yemen Monitor/ Newsroom:
The National Committee for Investigating Human Rights Violations in Yemen announced its field visit to the villages of Al-Lasab, An-Najd, and Al-Harar in Salh district, Taiz governorate, which witnessed several incidents in December 2024 and early January 2025.
The committee team inspected the secondary and dangerous roads that citizens have resorted to in order to deliver their food and health needs, as well as the risks faced by women farmers and schoolchildren when going out and coming in, and assessed the nature of daily life for civilian residents.
A number of residents reported ongoing sniping and shelling of their homes, and what remains of the population, which exceeds nine hundred individuals of both genders. The latest incident involved a number of women who were tending to their sheep near the houses being hit by shrapnel from a shell that fell on the pasture, which the committee investigated directly.
The National Committee team also met and listened to a number of victims and eyewitnesses to incidents of planting and exploding anti-personnel mines, and inspected farms and roads where mines exploded at different times, leading to their abandonment and economic losses for the residents, to avoid repeated incidents of death and limb amputation.
The field team documented a number of serious and grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law that affected the local population, the destruction of their homes, property, and large farms, and water wells, and their deprivation of access to health and service facilities in a safe manner. They also documented the obstruction of the right to education for children and the people of the villages due to indiscriminate shelling and the need to use old houses instead of destroyed schools, with volunteer teachers without any financial return.
