Statement of Condemnation and Denunciation
Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation: Houthi Terrorist Militia Bombardment of Al-Suqaya Health Center in Lahj is a War Crime and a Brutal Assault on the Right to Life and Treatment
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation (YWEF) condemns in the strongest terms the horrific crime committed by the terrorist Houthi militia to target the Al-Saqiya Health Center in the Directorate of Mudaraba and Ras Al-Ara in Lahj Governorate, on Sunday evening, November 1, 2026, with a ballistic missile, which resulted, according to the announced preliminary outcome of The Ministry of Health reported the death of five people and the injury of fifteen others, including three dead and seven injured medical staff, as well as serious damage to the health facility and its equipment and medical equipment.
The Foundation affirms that the targeting of a health facility that is supposed to be a safe haven for patients, injured persons and humanitarian workers is a serious violation of international humanitarian law, and requires investigation and criminal accountability, as an attack on a facility that enjoys special protection under the Geneva Conventions and the rules of international humanitarian law, and may amount to a war crime.
The Houthi terrorist militia, which has not been satisfied with turning Yemeni cities and villages into open arenas of death and destruction, continues to expand its crimes to health facilities and medical personnel, in an attack that reveals the disregard for civilian lives and the humanitarian rules that prohibit attacks on civilians. Hospitals, medical facilities and personnel.
The crime does not stop at the limits of the number of dead and injured, but its effects extend to depriving patients, women and children of basic health services in a region that already suffers from a fragile medical infrastructure and limited therapeutic capabilities. Every health facility that is destroyed means more lives are threatened. And more pregnant women, children, and patients who may find themselves without care, ambulance, or treatment.
The Foundation holds the leadership of the Houthi terrorist militia responsible for this attack, and demands an independent investigation that reveals its circumstances, and determines direct and leading criminal responsibilities, up to those responsible for issuing orders, planning and implementation, and not to be satisfied with formal convictions that do not stop crimes It does not protect civilians.
The Foundation also deplores the continued inability of the international community to take effective measures to deter repeated attacks on civilians and protected facilities in Yemen, and rejects that crimes targeting hospitals and health workers turn into mere numbers in humanitarian reports, and then folded pages without investigation, accountability, or redress for victims.
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation demands the following:
1. Open an independent and urgent investigation into the targeting of Al-Saqiya Health Center in Lahj Governorate, and collect technical and criminal evidence related to the attack.2. Identify those responsible for planning, issuing orders and carrying out the attack, and prosecute them in accordance with the rules of individual and command criminal responsibility.
3. Take serious measures to protect health facilities, medical personnel and civilians from repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist militia.
4. Urgent intervention to rehabilitate the Al Suqiyah Health Center, compensate the damaged devices and equipment, and ensure the continued provision of medical services to the residents of the region.
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation stresses that silence on the targeting of health facilities does not protect the lives of Yemenis, and that the impunity of the perpetrators of these crimes encourages their recurrence, and undermines the remaining legal and humanitarian guarantees to protect civilians in Yemen.
The Foundation stresses that the blood of the victims, the suffering of the wounded, and the destruction of health facilities will not be subject to statute of limitations, and that responsibility for serious crimes does not end with changing political or military circumstances, but rather remains until justice and justice for the victims are achieved.
Issued By
Yemen Women Empowerment Foundation (YWEF)
November 3, 2026
November 3, 2026