A human rights report by the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms revealed that the Iranian-backed Houthi militias have, in the last week, committed dozens of violations against residents and private property in the Al-Amoud area of Al-Joubah district in the Marib governorate.
Thousands of forcibly displaced Yemenis in southern Marib are facing tragic humanitarian conditions.
According to the report, the Houthis indiscriminately bombed populated areas with ballistic missiles, drones, mortars, howitzers, tank shells, and heavy and medium weapons, which caused the death of 20 civilians and the injury of 30 others, including women and children.
Houthi attacks have damaged and destroyed nine houses and more than ten civilian vehicles. More so, the militias destroyed a Salafi mosque in al-Joubah, where Houthis have laid siege to over 21,000 civilians.
The rights network said the intense Houthi attacks had uprooted more than 10,000 families.
Around 1,500 students from the Dar Al-Hadith Al-Salafi Center were displaced alongside their families after the militias targeted the center in the Al-Amoud area with two missiles.
The total shutdown of education facilities in Al-Joubah has deprived about 6,000 students from continuing their education.
Al-Joubah is suffering from a severe shortage in all basic needs, especially food and medicine, because of the stifling siege imposed by the Houthis.
The rights network called on all international and local organizations and the international community to exercise all means of pressure on the Houthis so that they can lift the suffocating siege on the people of the Abdiya district in Marib.
It also urged clearing the mines planted by the militias at the entrances of the district.
The network also called on the International Red Cross to condemn the siege in Abdiya and all the crimes committed by the militias against civilians. It encouraged running an urgent humanitarian relief convoy to the villages of Abdiya.
