Statement of Condemnation and Denunciation
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation: The massacre of the popular market of civilization in Al-Wazia is a horrific crime against civilians, and demands an urgent international investigation and accountability for those responsible for the killing of 30 civilians and the injury of dozens
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation (YWEF) condemns in the strongest terms and the harshest feelings of anger and condemnation the horrific bloody massacre witnessed by the Popular Civilization Market in Al-Wazia District, west of Taiz Governorate, on Friday, November 6, 2026AD, which, according to preliminary information circulating, resulted in the killing of 30 civilians Dozens of people were injured, amid reports that the number of wounded rose to more than 110 people, in one of the most heinous crimes that targeted a civilian gathering crowded with citizens.
The Foundation holds the Houthi terrorist militia responsible for this massacre, based on what was announced by the local authority in Taiz governorate and the Yemeni armed forces, and what the Foundation has verified on the ground through its monitors and field team, and confirms that the transformation of popular markets and places of gathering civilians into Areas of killing and destruction represent a flagrant violation of the right to life, a blatant disregard for the lives of innocent people, and an attack on the basic rules of international humanitarian law that prohibit the targeting of civilians and civilian objects and indiscriminate attacks.
The Foundation confirms that this massacre reveals the extent of the tragedy experienced by Yemeni civilians in light of the continued rocket attacks and shelling that affect residential neighborhoods, markets and health facilities, leaving behind grieving families and children who lost their fathers, mothers and women who lost their husbands and breadwinners. A tragic scene in which human suffering and the psychological, social and economic effects on victims and their families multiply.
Targeting a popular market frequented by citizens to secure their daily needs requires an independent criminal and technical investigation that reveals the nature of the weapon used, the source of the attack and those responsible for its implementation. It also confirms that intentionally directing attacks against civilians constitutes a war crime in accordance with the provisions of international humanitarian law. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The Foundation deplores the continued inability of the international community to provide effective protection to Yemeni civilians, in light of the repeated crimes affecting women and children, markets, hospitals and basic services facilities, warning that the continued impunity gives the Houthi militias more courage to repeat it.
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation demands the following:
1. The United Nations, the Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to move urgently to open an independent and transparent investigation into the massacre at the Popular Market of Civilization, collect material and technical evidence and testimonies, and identify those responsible for the attack in order to hold them accountable.
2. The international community and international mechanisms concerned with accountability to take serious legal action to prosecute those responsible for crimes against Yemeni civilians, and ensure that perpetrators do not go unpunished.
3. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and humanitarian and medical organizations to intervene urgently to support hospitals and health facilities that receive the injured, and to provide medicines, medical supplies and surgical, rehabilitative and psychological care to the victims.
4. The judicial and human rights authorities competent to document the names of the dead and injured and to preserve evidence related to the crime, and to ensure the rights of victims and their families to justice, fairness, reparation and compensation.
5. The international community and influential countries should exert effective pressure to stop attacks on civilians, dry up sources of funding and arming the Houthi terrorist militia, and take the necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of these massacres.
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation stresses that the blood of the victims in the popular market of civilization, as well as the blood of thousands of civilians who fell in Taiz and other Yemeni governorates, may not be turned into mere numbers in news bulletins or statements of passing condemnation, and that justice requires full disclosure of the circumstances the crime, and to identify those responsible and hold them accountable without selectivity or leniency.
The Foundation extends its sincere condolences and sympathy to the families of the dead and their families, wishes a speedy recovery to all the injured, and affirms its full solidarity with the sons of the Directorate of Wazia and all the victims and those affected.