"Maternal Pain"
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation reveals a shocking toll of Houthi militia crimes against women and children in Taiz within 76 days
107 women and children killed, 1,321 home invasions, 4,860 displaced
221 thousand IDPs, and more than 246 thousand children are deprived of education.
Taiz – Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation | October 20, 2026The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation (YWEF) , in a new human rights and statistical report entitled "Mothers' Pain", revealed a wide range of crimes and violations by the terrorist Houthi militia against women, children and civilians in Taiz Governorate, during the period from August 1 to October 15, 2026, including killing, shelling and sniping mines, home invasions, forced displacement, child recruitment, and attacks on health and education services.
The Foundation confirmed that the results of monitoring and documentation reveal the magnitude of the humanitarian tragedy experienced by women and children in Taiz, as a result of the continued Houthi attacks on residential areas, villages and civilian facilities, and the transformation of the lives of thousands of families into daily suffering from killing, fear, displacement and deprivation of the simplest Human rights.
Toll of crimes and violations
According to the report, the Foundation documented the killing of 107 women and children, including 23 women and 84 children, as a result of rocket and artillery shelling, drone attacks, sniping, mines, and other killings committed by the Houthi militia.
The report also recorded 1,321 cases of home invasions, and the accompanying intimidation of women and children and attacks on the sanctity of homes and property, in addition to the displacement of 4,860 people, including 1,650 women and 3,210 children, as a result of Houthi attacks, threats with weapons, and storming residential neighborhoods.
The Foundation revealed the registration of 221,630 displaced persons within the scope of the report, the majority of whom are women and children, including families who have been repeatedly displaced from the seam areas and the villages of Taiz, the West Coast and Mokha, in search of safety, shelter and basic services.
In crimes against children, the Foundation documented the forced recruitment of 32 children as part of the practices of luring, threatening, intimidating and exploiting the living conditions of families, as well as the registration of 246,110 children outside education institutions in areas affected by Houthi attacks and violations.
At the level of health services, the report recorded 1,056 cases within the index of crimes and violations related to medical and health services, including attacks on medical facilities, disruption of services, obstruction of patients' access to treatment and restrictions on health staff, which exposes the lives of pregnant women and children and patients are at serious risk.
Children and women in the crosshairs of shells, snipers and mines
The report reviewed documented models of victims of Houthi attacks, including the 14-day-old baby Mohammed Muheeb Saeed Qasim, who was killed in shelling targeting a residential area in Taiz in early October, and the three-year-old child Amir Issam Ahmed Naji, who was killed by artillery shelling targeting Al-Shamasi neighborhood. Residential in the city of Taiz on September 24.
It also documented the killing of the child Nessma Muhammad Ghalib al-Shehri by a Houthi sniper on October 7, the child Muhammad Abdullah Abdo Muqbel (12 years old) by shelling targeting Al-Shaqab area in Sabr district, and the child Yousef Abdulwath Karami (15 years old) by a mortar shell targeting the Sala area on September 30.
The report included the crime of bombing the house of the family of the citizen Dirham Ahmed Amir in the area of loans in the Directorate of Misrakh on October 6, which, according to the documentation card, resulted in the death of four family members and the serious injury of a woman.
The Foundation confirmed that these crimes reflect a dangerous pattern of Houthi attacks that affected homes, neighborhoods and villages, did not exclude infants, children and women, and turned civilians' homes, roads and the surroundings of their schools into areas that threaten their lives on an ongoing basis.
Legal Responsibility and Accountability Claimant
The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation held the Houthi terrorist militia responsible for the crimes and violations it documented in Taiz governorate, stressing that it deliberately targeted civilians, indiscriminate attacks, unlawful displacement, and the recruitment and use of children under the age of fifteen in fighting. Attacks on protected medical and educational facilities constitute war crimes according to the nature of the acts and evidence and the legal circumstances associated with them.
The Foundation called on the United Nations, the Human Rights Council and relevant international mechanisms to take urgent action to stop the crimes of the Houthi militia, protect civilians, end the recruitment of children, stop the incursions into homes and forced displacement, ensure the safe return of displaced persons, and prosecute those responsible for Crimes and justice for victims.
The Foundation stressed that the continued impunity of perpetrators of crimes gives the Houthi militia an opportunity to continue its violations against women and children, stressing that the protection of civilians in Taiz requires moving from statements of condemnation to practical measures that ensure the cessation of attacks, accountability and reparation.
The Foundation concluded its report by affirming that "the pain of mothers" is not just a digital toll, but a human rights testimony to the suffering of thousands of families who have lost their children, their homes, their safety and the future of their children, calling on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards the victims and end the silence about the Houthi crimes Continuous.