Zionist War Crime in Targeting Yemeni Port

By: Kayhan International

Last month’s terrorist attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on the Red Sea by the illegitimate Zionist entity that destroyed food storage facilities and fuel tanks igniting huge blazes, is being considered a “possible war crime”, says the Human Rights Watch.

Wonder, why the New York based organization used such ambiguous words instead of calling a spade a spade!
At least seven Yemenis were killed in the Israeli aerial bombing that left 80 other people injured, many of them  seriously, yet this supposedly non-government American organization, hesitates from denouncing it outright as a war crime.
It merely said the airstrikes on Yemen’s evening of July 20 were an “apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians that could have a long-term impact on millions of Yemenis who rely on the port for food and humanitarian aid.”
Serious violations of the laws of war committed willfully, that is deliberately or recklessly, are without the least doubt war crimes.
In fact, the illegal Zionist entity, which has no right to exist on Palestinian soil, survives on war crimes and that too in complicity with the crimes against humanity of the US.
The Israeli attacks killed Ahmed Abdullah Musa Jilan, Salah Abdullah Muqbil al-Sarari, Abdul Bari Muhammad Yusuf Ezzi, Nabil Nasher Abdo Abdullah, Abu Bakr Hussein Abdullah Faqih, and Idris Dawood Hassan Ahmed, all Yemen Petroleum Company employees. 
The Israeli attack cannot be justified as retaliation to Yemen’s right to target Tel Aviv for its ongoing genocide in Gaza that has so far martyred 40,000 people and injured almost a hundred thousand others, many of them maimed for life.
Yemen also has the right to raid the Zionist port cities of Eilat and Haifa. This does not mean Israel has the license to expand the war theatre by targeting Yemen.
The Human Rights Watch, however, admitted that Israeli forces damaged or destroyed at least 29 of the 41 oil storage tanks at Hodeidah port, as well as the only two cranes used for loading and unloading supplies from ships. The airstrikes also destroyed oil tanks connected to the Hodeidah power plant, causing the power plant to stop operating for 12 hours.  
A remnant that Mwatana for Human Rights collected at the site bore the markings of Woodward, a US manufacturing company, and matches remnants collected in other contexts of the GBU-39 series bomb made by the US company Boeing. The GBU-39, known as the “small diameter bomb,” is a guided, airdropped munition. 
This is ample proof that the US is actively involved in the Zionist crimes in Palestine and over West Asia.