Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
Two brothers were killed and other family members were injured when the Houthis bombed a house in the “Hanka Al Masoud” area of Al Bayda Governorate (central Yemen(.
Local sources reported that Houthi militiamen targeted a citizen’s house in the middle of this week, despite warnings from intermediaries about the family’s situation.
According to the sources, the house was subjected to gunfire on its windows before being booby-trapped and blown up, resulting in the death of the brothers Jaber and Faris, and serious injuries to their brother Mohammed, in addition to injuries to the father and mother.
The incident comes days after the Houthis stormed the village of Hanka Al Masoud, killing and kidnapping dozens of the village’s residents after a siege that lasted more than a week.
Last Sunday, a human rights report documented 8,181 violations committed by the Houthi group in Al Bayda Governorate from January 2015 to January 2025.
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms, in a recent report titled “Qifah: An Open Theater for Houthi Terrorism,” stated that the violations were distributed among murder crimes that claimed the lives of 842 civilians, including women and children, and injuries to 931 others, including permanent injuries.
The report indicated that the Houthi group used various means of killing, and that 61 cases of killing were due to direct sniping, 285 cases of killing by direct gunfire, 198 cases as a result of random shelling, 214 cases due to landmines, 41 cases of field executions, 13 cases of killing as a result of house bombings, 18 cases of assassination, 14 cases of killing under torture, 8 cases of killing by running over with Houthi vehicles, and 17 cases of killing as a result of other incidents.
It also monitored serious violations of personal rights and human dignity, including 2,780 cases of kidnapping, 366 cases of enforced disappearance, 132 cases of psychological and physical torture, and 2,691 cases of violations against property and civilian objects.
The report stated that the village of Hanka Al Masoud in the Quraishiya district was the target of a siege that lasted more than a week, where the militia used drones and heavy weapons to destroy houses and displace families, resulting in the killing of 7 civilians and injuring 18 others, including women and children. The militia also launched a widespread kidnapping campaign that targeted at least 400 civilians, including children and the elderly.
