The protocols of the Geneva Convention consider it prohibited terrorism: in numbers.. Al-Houthi executes civilians by sniping
English - Saturday 12 March 2022 الساعة 09:35 am
NewsYemen, Investigations Division:
"Snipers" are a combat unit in modern armies, but the Iranian arm has turned "sniping" into a "criminal mechanism", as it goes beyond the wars of the fronts to targeting civilians of different ages, in a terrorist crime that confirms the correctness of the international classification of this group as a "terrorist group".
Houthi snipers turned from fighters against their counterparts, to professional criminals who killed civilians by direct sniping.
From time to time, a civilian victim is announced in operations that leave an ocean of pain throughout the neighborhoods of Taiz Governorate, the largest population gathering in the country, which has been surrounded by snipers who have been deployed around the city for years.
Victims of two months
NewsYemen tracks sniping cases during the past two months in Taiz governorate, which proved that the Iranian arm's snipers deliberately killed civilians. The number of snipers that were exposed to 11 civilians, including women and children, was tracked by NewsYemen 8 of them..This is its story.
While the world was celebrating International Women's Day, the Houthi sniper was hunting the heads of women in Taiz.
The 41-year-old citizen, Saeeda Salem, went to fetch grass for her sheep, next to her house, but a Houthi sniper assassinated her on her International Day of Eid from her position in Jabal al-Majasha in the Moqbna district, west of the governorate.
Hayat Ali Mahyoub Qassem (50 years old) was also killed by sniper bullets that penetrated her left shoulder and settled in her heart, as it stopped beating in the village of Wahar, north of Jabal Habashi District.
As for Ghania Rabash, she was killed in the prime of her youth on 2 March, as a result of a sniper's bullet in the Al-Ashlah area, one of the districts of Maqbna District.
“Jamila Shamsan Masoud” was shot by a sniper on February 6 from Tabat al-Silal while she was passing through the al-Jahmalia neighborhood in the east of the city, but she miraculously escaped death.
The child, Maryam Abdel Mawla Al-Zubair (12 years), did not spare her childhood from the targeting of the sniper, as she was injured while she was in Bir Basha neighborhood by a Houthi sniper stationed in Tabat Al-Qari’, adjacent to the air defense camp, on February 27.
Meanwhile, the elderly Hazza Hassan Abdo Al-Kuwaihi was killed by a Houthi sniper while he was passing the road to the mills "Maqbana" on the 7th of March.
Execution before the meeting
In a sniper incident that received widespread sympathy on social media as one of the crimes witnessing the targeting of civilians, a Houthi sniper bullet kidnapped the life of oil engineer Mahfouz Dael, while he was visiting his parents in the Asafra area, north of the city, leaving a five-month-old girl.
Nabil Ali Dael (Mahfouz's brother) told "NewsYmen" that a Houthi sniper killed his brother while he was at the door of his mother's house, who was waiting to visit him.
He added that the Houthi sniper stationed in Tabat Hamid, which is about 600 meters away from his mother's house, after targeting Mahfouz, continued to target everyone trying to rescue him until he died half an hour after a gunshot pierced his shoulder and settled in his heart.
He continues: His mother had a nervous breakdown and her health deteriorated as a result of her son's sniping in front of the house, where he came to visit her, which necessitated her transfer to the hospital where she stayed for five days.
Mahfouz had obtained a master's degree in petroleum engineering from Malaysia, and returned to the city of Taiz after expatriating it since 2008.
Murder
Numerous reports issued by several local and international organizations documented and monitored the sniping crimes practiced by the Houthi militia since the start of the war.
The horror of the sniper”, a report issued by SAM Organization for Rights and Freedoms, documented the killing of 365 civilians by snipers and the wounding of 512 civilians, including 157 children and 85 women, of which more than 345 disabilities were recorded by the Houthis’ bullets to civilians in the governorate during the period from 2015 to December 2020 in Taiz governorate, which he described The report "most affected by this crime."
Children's sniper", another report issued by a coalition, explained that targeting civilians in Taiz is the favorite hobby of Houthi militia snipers. He likened what the Houthi militias are doing to a hunting trip for humans from the beginning of the war until the writing of the report.
The report, which dealt with the sniping operations that targeted children in Taiz, documented the killing and wounding of 366 children between the ages of (1-17 years) by snipers belonging to the Houthi militia since the beginning of the war until the year 2020.
Civilian sniping is terrorism
Sniping of civilians is considered a war crime and terrorism, as the sniper is aware of the victim's identity, which he sees clearly before him before he is targeted.
International humanitarian law stipulates that sniping civilians is a form of terrorist acts, and the Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 33) stipulates that “collective punishments and likewise all measures of threat or terrorism are prohibited,” and the protocols of the Geneva Convention “prohibit acts of violence or threats of violence that are specifically targeted The main aim is to spread terror among the civilian population,” such as carrying out a long-term bombing and sniping campaign on civilian areas.
On Monday, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2624 "2022" under Chapter VII, which defines the sanctions regime against Yemen, and describes the Houthi group in one of its paragraphs as a terrorist group. The resolution also lists the Houthis as an entity under the targeted weapon
