The National Society for Human Rights has issued a strong condemnation of the repeated attacks the terrorist Houthi group has launched against Saudi Arabia over recent days, including strikes on civil aviation facilities. The society referred to the perpetrators as the “terrorist Houthi militia”.

In its view, the attacks are a flagrant breach of international law, in particular the rules that protect civilians and civilian objects and forbid attacks on them, require parties to distinguish between military targets and civilian objects, and oblige them to take the precautions needed to spare civilians.

The society pointed to the 1988 Montreal Protocol on the suppression of unlawful acts of violence at airports serving international civil aviation, which makes it a crime to deliberately target people at such airports in ways that cause, or are likely to cause, serious injury or death, as well as to destroy or seriously damage airport facilities or disrupt their services.

It urged the international community, and the Security Council first and foremost, to shoulder its responsibility for enforcing the relevant international resolutions on Yemen, insisting that effective international action is needed.