‫محافظة مأرب‬Marib Governorate

Republic of Yemen

Introduction
Marib governorate is considered one of the most volatile areas
in Yemen. Clashes between the army and the Houthi rebel/
coup militias first erupted in Majzar north of the governorate
in late 2014 and continue up to this date in many areas
south and west the governorate, including Serwah ,Majzar,
Madghal, Raghwan, Mahlya and Rahaba, causing civilian
casualties, especially children and women.
The Human rights Office in Marib has documented (14680)
violations committed against civilians such as murder, injury,
arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture and forced
displacement that occurred in the period from August 2014
to December 2020. It also covers the violations against theprivate and public properties, e.g. looting, detonation andshelling.

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Chapter 1

Report Scene:
Marib
Marib, one of the governorate s of the Republic of
Yemen, is located to the northeast of the capital
Sana'a. It is located about 173 km far from Sana'a.
The population of the governorate constitute
1.2% of the population of the Republic of Yemen
according to the 2004 census. It consists of 14
districts spread over the governorate 's total areaof 17455 square kilometers. The city of Marib is
the center of the governorate. It is bordered by
Aljawf in the north, Shabwa and Hadramout inthe east, al-Beidha and Shabwah in the south,and Sanaa in the west. The residents of Maribrely on agriculture and animal husbandry as
their main source of livelihood. A segment of thepeople depend on public salaries, military andcivil, and remittances of expatriates who work in
the neighboring Gulf states.

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Context

On the political level:
Yemen was witnessing an unprecedented political activity in
2013-2014. All the Yemeni governorates were witnessing political seminars, workshops, conferences as part of the public
consultations that contributed into the then ongoing National Dialogue Conference in Sana'a. The dialogue included all
stakeholders including the traditional elite of the former President Saleh and the Houthis.
But this political dialogue came to a halt after the Houthi militias
mounted their military coup and rebelled against outcomes of
the national dialogue. They waged a widespread war in many
Yemeni governorate s in order to impede Yemen's transformation to a federal state.
Because Marib with all its political parties and tribal components took the side of the legitimate government, the militias
launched war against it and from various fronts, which led to
the killing of many civilians and destruction of several public
and private properties.
On the economic level:
The governorate of Marib is considered one of the most important Yemeni governorates that supplies the state with oil
and gas revenues, especially that is exported through Ras Issa
port and Balhaf port in Shabwa, in addition to being one of themost important governorates that covers local markets withvegetables and fruits. Because of the Houthi militia’s coupagainst state institutions and their open war on the Yemeni

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governorates, the production of crude oil and liquefied natural gas has stopped, which has doubled the suffering of
Yemenis in general, with a negative impact on the value ofthe national currency and an increase in the value of hardcurrency due to the suspension of export. The Houthi militia
also has transformed Marib into battlefields and planted tensof thousands of landmines, which affects the planting of the
fruits and vegetables.
On the military level:
At the end of 2014, the militias invaded the Majzar district inorder to control it and to be their northern gateway to invade
the city of Marib.
Because of the local people's objection, the conflict brokeout in this district and the heavily armed militias killed andinjured many civilians and looted many public and private
properties and forced the displacement of hundreds of families.
In 2015, the militias invaded the western gateway to the cityof Marib, the district of Serwah because the district is thenearest to the center of Marib. After fierce confrontations,the militias managed to seize Serwah and then the areas ofJaffinah, dam, Al-Manin and Al-Fao ,outskirts of Marib city.
The militia maintained control on significant areas of Maribfor more than six months. The militias gains were achieved at
the expense of lives of hundreds of civilians, including women and children. Many private and public establishments
were obliterated.
Although these areas of Marib have been liberated by thearmy since October 2015, their populations still suffer because of the landmines that the militias planted.
At the beginning of 2015, the militias tried to invade Maribthrough its southwestern gate from the governorate of Al-

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Beidha. Fierce clashes nearly two months, causing dozens
of civilian casualties due to the militias' intentional indiscriminate shelling and planting of landmines. The coup militia once again launched to an open war against the civilians who supported the National Army, and managed to takecontrol of the Mahlia and Rahaba districts, causing massive
displacements.
Currently, the militias continue to control a number of areas
in western and southern Marib and occupy the homes of displaced citizens. They also control the strategic Hailan mountain and use its top as a military barracks from which theyshell the residential neighborhoods in Marib, killing civilians
and innocent people on a continual basis.

War in Yemen and the International Law
The current armed conflict in Yemen is classified as a noninternational conflict between the legitimate government
forces supported by the Arab Coalition and the Houthi
militias. The International Humanitarian Law, represented by
the four Geneva Conventions to which Yemen is a signatory,
obliges the warring parties to abide by a set of obligations.
Yemen and some of the states participating in the armed
conflict are also parties to the Protocol II of the Geneva
Conventions, which provides for additional protective
measures for the combatants and civilians during noninternational armed conflicts.
All parties to the Yemeni conflict, including the nongovernmental armed groups, have a responsibility to comply
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party must respect and comply with the laws of the war. The
obligation is not reciprocal. The parties to the conflict must
respect the terms and conditions, whether the counterparty
does likewise or not.
The International Humanitarian Law requires the warring
parties to distinguish between civilians and combatants, aswell as to refrain from using unexploded ordnances in densely
populated areas. The The International Humanitarian Law
also requires the warring parties to allow and facilitate thecivilians' access to humanitarian aid supplies.

Executive Summary
This report is the product of a year of hard work by the field
monitoring team of the Human Rights Office in Marib.
The team worked in a very difficult and complicatedenvironment that involved challenges and often risks of life to
the monitors to document the violations that occurred since
the war began in August 2014 until the end of December
2020 in all of Marib, particularly those areas that witnessed
confrontations between the government and the militias
which sought to control the governorate and undermine thestate authorities.
The militia's war on Marib was the main cause of thedeterioration of the human rights situation in the governorate
because of the militias' indiscriminate shelling on residential
areas and planting of landmines that left dozens of civilian
casualties, especially workers and children. Add to that the
militias' policy of occupying and looting of private and public

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properties and forcing the displacement of citizens and thearrest and forced disappearance of all oppositionists to them.
This report aims to shed light on the figures and statistics ofthese violations caused by the militias against civilians who
were not a party to the ongoing conflict, based on accurate
and impartial information collected during a systematic
monitoring and documentation process by a group of welltrained monitors.
The report is divided into five chapters; the first chapter
presents introduction and the time line of the events, while thesecond chapter presents the violations against the civilians,
and the third chapter presents the violations related to public
and private property. The fourth chapter describes the militia's
targeting of facilities, health facilities, and humanitarian aid
convoys in addition to historical and cultural heritage sites.
Finally, chapter five presents some examples cases (case-inpoints of violations) documented.
The figures reveal all the violations in the period from August
2014 to the end of December 2020. The number of these
violations committed by the Houthi militias against the peopleof Marib amounted to (14680). These violations include (615)cases of killing; (146) by landmines and (469) by missiles
and projectiles, (1512) cases of injuries; (393) by landmines
planted by Houthi militia in the agricultural land, and (1119)
by various missiles and projectiles fired by Houthi militia on
residential areas.
(391) Cases of arrest, (109) cases of enforced disappearance,and (43) other cases subjected to torture are among the

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violations that the Houthi militia committed against civilians
in Marib during the reporting period.
The figures documented by the Human Rights Office in Marib
indicate that (39) public facilities were totally destroyed, (109)
public facilities were partially destroyed, and (596) houses,
shops and private properties were totally damaged, and(1726) private facilities were partially damaged. Also (510)
installations and various public and private facilities wereseized and looted by the Houthi coup militia.
The figures also reveal (26) cases of bombing by the Houthi
coup militia in Marib, including a mosque in Serwah and AlSalah School in Majzar, and (24) civilians’ homes in Majzar
and Serwah districts, in addition to (69) cases of attack on
medical facilities, (16) cases of obstruction to humanitarianaid, and (7) cases of attacks on historical and archaeologicalobjects and places.
The office's field teams documented the displacement of(7112) families and forced displacement of (1,800) families in
the governorate of Marib.
Finally, we would like to note that the cases of displacementshow only the people who have been displaced from the
Houthi-controlled districts in the Marib governorate during
intermittent periods, not all people who have been displaced
from other governorates under Houthi militia control and fled
to Marib.

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Report methodology
The Human Rights Office in Marib governorate monitored
the violations and collected preliminary information through42 from its supervisors deployed in all the governorate’s
districts, and through the field visits carried out by a numberof monitors and lawyers to document violations. The
monitors gathered testimonies from victims and witnesses,
and facts from issued death certificates and technicalreports on the type of shells fired into neighborhoods andtaking advantage of consulting retired military experts who
did not participate in the conflict.
The Human Rights Office also receives complaints from thevictims of violations and their families; collects and verifies
information and adds them to the integrated database;prepares and compiles the report and reviews it.
Finally, we would like to point out that the figures presented
in the report are not all the violations committed in Marib.
But these are all the figures the office managed to collectgiven the societal and war-related constraints.

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Chapter 2

1. Attacks on Civilians
The Houthi militias launched their war against different
areas in Marib. As the battle between the army andthe militias recedes to concentrate into the areas ofSerwah, Majzar, Madghal, Mahilyah, Rahabah in Marib,
the civilian casualty toll spikes high.
Since the beginning of the war in mid-2014, we haveundertaken to monitor and document the human rights
violations in all districts of the governorate , especiallythose that were the scene of military operations. A
number of civilians were killed, none of whom wereinvolved in the war.
The International Humanitarian Law is enshrined in
Article 12 of Protocol II on the Protection of Victims of
Non-International Conflicts, which requires parties to aconflict to distinguish between civilians and combatants
and not to attack civilians, and only combatants canbe attacked. The Law also bans the use of unguided
projectiles in densely populated areas, where it is
impossible to accurately target specific target.
All domestic laws, as well as international conventions
and treaties, have stressed the necessity of protecting
civilians who are not parties to the armed conflict, but
the rebel militias breached them and systematicallytargeted civilians.
The monitoring team of the Human Rights Office in
Marib found that 469 people were killed by Houthis
rocket attacks, landmines and indiscriminate shellingon residential neighborhoods in Marib. None of themwere a party to the conflict.

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The following table shows the civilian deaths from August
2014 until December 2020.
No.

Year

Women

Children

Men

Total

1

2014

2

10

65

77

2

2015

13

32

58

103

3

2016

15

37

94

148

4

2017

3

11

27

41

5

2018

4

11

21

36

6

2019

3

7

22

32

7

2020

5

8

19

32

8

Total

45

116

306

469

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2. Injuries:
The Houthi militias controlled many of the areas adjacent topopulation centers with no care about the life of civilians as theylaunched attacks or fired missiles during their advances to takethese centers. These shells injured many civilians.
The monitoring team of the Human Rights Office in Marib foundthat 1119 civilians were injured by indiscriminate shelling on
residential neighborhoods in Marib. None of them were a party
to the conflict. The report shows that the year 2016 was theworst year for children and women, as (127) children and (57)
women were injured in the same year.
The following table shows the number of the injured in the period
from August 2014 to December 2020.
No.

year

women

children

men

Total

1

2014

18

22

82

122

2

2015

24

46

114

184

3

2016

57

127

195

379

4

2017

9

27

76

112

5

2018

37

25

33

95

6

2019

25

37

42

104

7

2020

41

25

57

123

8

Total

108

222

467

1119

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The following table shows the number of civilians maimed,males, women and children:
Males

Women

Children

total

134

78

92

304

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3. Landmines Victims
Planting, manufacturing or stockpiling landmines, especiallythe anti-personnel ones, is criminalized in the International
Humanitarian Law and the related conventions, including
the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling,
production and transfer of anti-personnel mines. Yemen is asignatory to this treaty.
The Office of Human Rights in Marib has worked to monitor
and document landmines victims in the governorate . Figures
show high percentage of landmine victims in the areas of
Majzar, Serwah, al-Mahjara, al-Makhdara, al-Manin, al-Fao, Marib Historical Dam area, and Mahilyah. These are theareas that the militias captured and lost intermittently andstill keep control on some of them since late the start of thewar in late 2014. Landmine victims have often been workers
in the agricultural sector, children and women.
The following table gives some details about the victims oflandmines.
noThe
Victims

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

1

women

‫ـــــ‬

8

4

3

2

3

2

children‫ـــــ‬

12

9

8

8

12

5

54

3

men

‫ـــــ‬

23

14

11

14

7

3

72

-

total

0

43

28

22

24

22

8

146

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The following table illustrates who and how many were injured
by landmines.
noThe
injured

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018 2019 2020

1

Women

‫ـــــ‬

32

4

1

16

7

4

64

2

Children‫ـــــ‬

57

29

8

22

45

17

178

3

Men

‫ـــــ‬

48

34

3

35

22

8

150

-

Total

137

67

13

73

74

29

393

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4.

Detaining and Forced
Disappearance:

International treaties, including the Fourth Geneva Convention
and the Second Protocol, made it clear that human freedom
and dignity should not be violated, and persons deprived of
their liberties should be treated humanely, and it consideredarbitrary arrest and unlawful detention of civilians a grave
violation of what was stated in the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The illegal detention of civilians is a grave violation under the
ICC Statute.
The Human Rights Office in Marib found, according to
the testimonies of the victims and their families, that the
Houthi militia practices arbitrary detention and enforced
disappearance against civilian persons with the aim ofextorting their families and relatives to get money or
exchanging these detainees with prisoners of war.
Type of violation

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

ForcedDisappearance

-

12

49

7

11

8

22

109

Arbitrary Arrest

25

70

89

119

32

12

44

391

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5. Tortures
Human Rights Office in Marib could through its observers
meet with a number of former detainees and their relatives.
The Office received documents, photos and videos revealed
brutal torture and inhumane maltreatment that detainees
often suffered in jails and detention places.
The Office observed different kinds of brutal torturescommitted against the detainees including barbaric
beating using thick staves, hanging for long time, starving,
restricting toilets use to once per day, preventing detainees
from communicating with families and relatives. The Officemaintained data and names of (43) cases of torture included
detainees and forced disappeared persons were subjected
to different forms of torture in Houthi militias' jails. Those
detainees were arrested from different areas of Maribgovernorate.

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6. Forced Displacement
Civilians forced displacement is one of the offences outlawedby national and international legislations as it enshrinedin article (17) of the Humanitarian International Law of theSecond Supplementary Protocol attached to the Geneva
Agreement.
The Human Rights Office in Marib documented (1800) casesof forced displacement touched upon (1800) families from
north ,west and south Marib.. Figures indicate that majorityof forced displaced people were from two main regions (Majzar and Serwah). After Houthi militias had been pushedout, the displaced people from the city of Marib and Majzar
returned to their origin places. Yet more than (1500) families
have continued to be displaced. Most of these peoples havebeen displaced from different parts of Serwah district since
the war commenced on Marib governorate.
It is important to note that these figures are exclusively about
forced displaced persons of Marib governorate population.
The figures incorporated in this report don't include IDPs of
Marib governorate or forced displaced families from othergovernorates or the IDPs from other Yemeni governorates
who fled their regions to safe areas in Marib governorate.

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7. Displacement Because of War
The warfare waged by Houthi militias on Marib governorate
since the first half of 2014, still going on in several areas
western, northern and southern Marib, has caused
displacement of many people of these regions. As aresult, these regions' population torment has been further
exacerbated, increasingly creating more challenges to the
local authority.
Human Rights Office in Marib managed to gather data andnames of (7112) of families who had to flee their own origin
regions during the period referred in the title of this report.
Statistics indicate that population of Serwah and Majzar werelargely displaced, followed by the population of Madghal,
Raghwan and Hareeb, Mahyliah and Rahaba regions.
It is important to point out that these statistics arepertaining to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of
Marib governorate population who had to flee front-lines
confrontations to safer places within the geographicalborders of the governorate. Thus, statistics of IDPs
from other Yemeni governorate s to Marib were notincorporated in this report.

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Violations on Public andPrivate-owned PropertyFirst: Shelling

Chapter 3

The war launched by Houthi militias on several
regions of Marib governorate caused great dealof destruction and damages on the public andprivate-owned properties. Many buildings either
partially damaged or completely destroyed by the
militias shelling.
The militiamen used a variety of machine-guns,
artillery, mortars, howitzer, BMP ,R.P.G rockets,and ballistic missiles.
Residential homes and civilian objects, as well as
public and private facilities and infrastructure, wereattacked by shelling, or used as military barracks
and weapons stores, as well as blown up.
Human Rights Office in Marib documented(148) cases of bombardments resulted indemolishing (39) buildings of the public properties,
completely destroyed. The various machineguns bombardment targeted educational, health,worshiping buildings or government's offices andpremises. (109) Buildings of public properties werepartially destroyed.

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Table bellow illustrates number of public properties entirelyor partially damaged by the militias in Marib governorate
No

Type of Public properties

Totally destroyed

Partially
damaged

1

Educational institutions

9

52

2

Health institutions

8

11

3

Worshiping buildings

7

16

4

Water projects

3

5

5

Government's buildings

12

25

6

Total

39

109

The Human Rights Office documented (2322) cases ofshelling against private-owned property included houses,
plantations and shops; (596) of properties completely
destroyed and (1726) partially damaged.
Table bellow illustrates number of private-owned
property totally or partially damaged by Houthi militiasin Marib governorate
SerialType of private-owned property

Completely
destroyed

Partially
damaged

1

House

482

1227

2

Plantations

78

413

3

Shops

18

32

4

Restaurants

3

17

5

Other properties

15

37

6

Total

596

1726

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Second: Looting and Occupation
Human Rights Office teamwork observed and documented(510) cases of looting and occupation committed by Houthi
militias against public and private-owned property. Figures
show that (427) cases of looting and occupation of privateowned property included houses, plantations and shops, inaddition to (83) cases targeted public property.
Houthi militias committed looting and occupation offenses
against a lot of public and private-owned properties in theareas they took control over, including (Hareeb, Baihan, thecity suburbs, Serwah, Al-Qaramish, Bedbedah and Majzar).
Though the militias were pushed out of the areas of Hareeb
Baihan and the city suburbs, they have continued to put
these property under their control.
More important is that the militias occupation of theseproperties after they had looted, have made such properties
military targets for the forces of the other party to the conflictas the militias entrenched themselves in these properties.
(The table below illustrates private-owned property looted
and occupied by Houthi militias).

S

Type

HareebBaihan

1

House

9

27

82

18

3

47

3

2

2

Plantation

‫ـــ‬

12

35

9

5

7

2

3

3

Shop

‫ـــ‬

‫ـــ‬

26

3

9

5

4

another

8

2

68

‫ــ‬

7

24

5

Total

17

41

211

30

24

83

From August 2014 until the end of 2020.

City
Serwahsuburbs

24

HareebQaramishBedbedah Majzar Raghwan

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Rahaba Total
191
2

1
4

75
44

4

117
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Republic of Yemen(Table bellow illustrates public property looted and occupied
by Houthi militias)
City
suburbs

SerwahHareb
QaramishBedbedaMajzarMadghalRaghwan

Mahyliah

RahabaTotal

1School3472‫ــــ‬

5

2

3

2

1

32

2

Healthcenters

2

3

4

2

1

3

2

1

1

3

Another

5

6

15

4

5

10

4

Total

10

13

22

7

2

14

Type

HareebBaihan

No

2

19
1

48

83

Third: Detonation

Human Rights Office in Maribdocumented (26) cases ofdetonation.
These
cases
included public and privateowned properties. Dossiers
gathered by the Office's
observers illustrate that houses
bombed by Houthi militias
counted (24) in different areas of
the governorate, in addition tobombing a mosque in Serwah.
The militiamen demolishedthese properties using T.N.T.
explosive substance.
* This table includes namesof houses-owners that Houthi
militias bombed in Marib.

House

RegionAhmed Ali Nasser Ashleaf(1Serwah2)Mobark Ali Nasser Ashleaf

Serwah3) Faisal Mohammed Ali al-Qahtani

Marib city4) Hamad Mohammed Hussein Homaidah (4 houses)

Majzar5)Saidah Mohammed Hamad Dharba

Majzar6) Naji Mohammed Hussein Homaidha

Majzar7) Saleh Mohammed Rabi'eaDharman

Majzar8) Saleh Hussein ArarHomaidha

Majzar9) Ali Hamad Hussein Homaidha (2 houses)

Majzar10)Mohammed Hamad Hussein Homaidha

Majzar11)Ali Mabkhoot Mohammed Homaidha

Majzar12)Nasser Mohammed Hussein Homaidha

Majzar13)Rabi'ea Ali Mohammed Homaidha

Majzar14)Abdullah Hussein Ali Homaidha

Majzar15) Ali HamadDhaminan

Majzar16) Hussein Ali Al-Hadhal

Serwah17)Ahmed SalehAnnassiri

Serwah18) Mohmmed Zabn Allah Atibas

Serwah19)Saleh Ahmed al-Ayal

Serwah20)Saleh Mubarak bin Feras al-Jahmi

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Violations of Health Facilities,
Humanitarian Relief Convoys,
Cultural Heritage

Chapter 4First: Violations of Cultural Heritage Sites

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National and international legislations state that
cultural heritage landmarks and historical sites
shall never be targeted during war-times. Of theseInternational Conventions is, the 1954 Hague
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property
in the Event of Armed Conflict that Republic of
Yemen is a party to. Adding to that attacks andinflict damages on these cultural properties are inviolation of Article (16) of the Second Additional
Protocol attached to the Geneva Treaty about noninternational armed conflict which prohibits any
hostile actions against historical antiquities andartistic works that constitute cultural and spiritual
heritage of the nations. Hence, Human Rights Officein Marib observed and documented (7) cases inwhich cultural and historical sites were targeted.
Houthi militias occupied these ancient historical sites
like the ancient city of Baraqish, located in Majzar
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into a military barrack. Establishing premises and made that
headquarters of their own military command and vocal pointof their combat operations they carried out on the populationof these regions.
The worst is that Houthi militias occupied some archeologicalsites and messed with the remaining antiquates and ancientfeatures of the places, such as Palace of Queen of Sheba and
Al-Moqah Temple.

Second: Violations of Health and Medical Facilities
National and international legislations and laws prohibit totarget medical facilities, mobile clinics and all medical services
providers and staffs. Articles (9,10,11) of the Additional Protocol
attached to the Geneva Treaty state that medical facilities andworkers shall never be targeted.
Human Rights Office could observe and document (69) casesof violations against medical facilities and health centers.
(19) medical facilities were totally or partially damaged. The
violations included 22 cases of obstruction of medical missionsand (28) cases of attacks on medical teams. All these violationscommitted by Houthi militias.

Hinder Humanitarian Convoys
Under Humanitarian International Law parties to armed
conflict may impose blockade to stop weapons and equipment
supplies to the enemy forces. Thus, food, commodity, fuels
and medicine shipments to civilians may be checked, butthey can't be extremely delayed. Yet Houthi militias who
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took control over Hodeida seaport, and they still do, besides thatthey controlled large swaths of Yemeni regions including highways to
Marib. As a result, Marib population denied humanitarian aid and relief
provided by the UN World Food Program.
Human Rights Office in Marib documented (16) cases of violations
that humanitarian and relief convoys for Marib governorate were
subjected to. The violations included violent acts against aid-workers,
bombardment and confiscation of the humanitarian aid staffs by Houthi
militias.

Case-in-Point
The Incident:
Houthi militias that stationed in Fardhat Nehm checkpoint on the highway
connects Sana’a governorate with Marib hindered several trucks ladenwith relief materials were driving to Marib, April ,2015.

Human Rights Office documented
A worker of Islamic Relief Organization in Marib, which carry out
Emergency Project about distribution of humanitarian aids and relief
sponsored by UN World Food Program, reported that Houthi militias
caused a discontinuation of these assistances since 2015 until August
2016. The worker (B.S.M) affirms that shipment of humanitarian aids andrelief was on its way to Marib but it was held back in April 2015 in acheckpoint located in Fardhat Nehm controlled by Houthi militias. He
added that a quantity of (1353) tons and (245) kg it happened that theshipment was subjected to checking and monitoring by the authorities
that takeover in Sana'a. The shipment included (oil cooking + wheat+sugar and salt) was brought back to Sana'a meanwhile Marib population
were denied those humanitarian aids.
The (B.S.M) explained that Houthi militias that taken control in Sana'a andHodeida embarked on obstructing the needed clearance papers to thehumanitarian shipments for Marib governorate denying the populationthese urgently needed humanitarian and relief assistance.

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Case-in-points
In this final chapter, we are showing case-in points
and samples of cases of violations committed by
Houthi militia and documented by Marib's Human
Rights Office in the period defined by the report.

Chapter 5

1-Arrawdha, Northern Marib, July 5, 2016
On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 and at 5:30 PM the last
day of the holy Month of Ramadan, a rocket firedby Houthi militia from Hailan Mountain killed eightchildren and injured other 12 people, most of themwere children.
Mohammad Abdo Mahyoub, a father of two killedchildren says; I went to a nearby market, at the
downtown for shopping at 5:00 PM, leaving mychildren here- using his hand to point to the place
where the rocket fell near the house. When I arrived
at the gate of Azzira'a Camp, I heard huge explosion
I never heard and saw a big space of smoke and dust.
When I came back to the place, I found remains of mychildren scattered near the place where the rocket
fell. There were children martyred and injured in threedifferent places around the place of the rocket, I wasshocked to see my children among the martyredchildren; Abeer Mohammad AbdoMahyoub, 12
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stopped talking over crying.
Iyad Saleh Ahmad, one of the injured, says he was driving his bus in
the house's yard and when he arrived at the camp, there were children
playing and suddenly a rocket fell near me and children, making hugesound. He added that the rocket's fragments spread immensely, killingthe children, injuring others and hitting his car. I took some of them by
my bus, he says, and other cars carried others…. seven of the children
died at the moment and the eight died in the hospital in the same night.
The injured were 12; the majority of them were children.
The names of the killed;
Serial

Name

Age

Home
address

Part ofinjuryStatus1

Yousof Abdulwahab Moqbil

8

Azzira'a
Camp

Head

Killed2

Mohammad Abdulwahab Moqbil

10

Same place

Head

Killed3

Ibrahim Mohammad Mayoub

5

Same

Head/legKilled4

Ayman Hamid Madhkour

5

Same

Head

Killed5

Saleh Abdullah al-Ahmadi

15

Same

Head

Killed6

Jalal QayedDammaj

10

Same

Head

Killed7

BadrSaleh Mahdi

8

Same

Head

Killed8Abeer Mohammad Mayhoub

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The names of the injured;
SerialName

AgeHome address

Part ofinjuryStatus1

Ammar Qasem Saif

10

Azzera'a Camp

Eye- leg

Lost righteye

2

Iyad Saleh al-Aqel

35

Same

Hand/backModerate

3

Shima'a Qayed Dammaj

13

Same

Different
fragments

Moderate

4

Yara Sami al-Hased

1

Same

Different
fragments

Moderate

5

Mohammad Emir Sharaf

16

Airport Area

Head

Light

6

Abdulmajid Mansour alAmeri

12

Same

Different
fragments

Light

7

Marwan Abdulwali al-Azazi

32

Same

Different
fragments

Light

8

Naser Mohammad Farhan

15

Same

Leg

Moderate

9

Sahar Mohammad al-Hajibi

30

Same

Back/
shouldersModerate

10

Rimas Samil al-Hased

7

Same

Fragments

Moderate

11

AmmarYaser al-Sabiri

4

Same

Legs

Lost
right leg,injuries in
left

12

Dawla Ahmad Mahyoub

35

Same

Chest/
pelvicModerate

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2- Marib City/ Assalam Neighborhood , May 28,2015
The incident:
On Friday at 5:30 am, February 24, 2017, a rocket fired by
Houthi militias landed on Marib City near al-Jarashi Hotelwestern old Qat Market killing 3 persons including the child
Adel al-Minnah and injured 17 others.
Emad Amin Naser, 29, says he is working as observer on childjumping game located near al-Jarashi restaurant. It was on
Friday afternoon when I was chewing qat with my brother andsome youth at the State Real Estate's Office near the placeof the bombing. I came out at around 5:15 PM and when I
arrived at the place of the game I heard a sound similar of therocket and then heard a huge bombing. I lost conscience andminutes later I regained my conscience to see injuries in myleg and saw four children laying on the ground.
Mohammad Ahmad al-Hajouri, another eyewitness and injured
person said:" Afternoon, I was walking, along with my friend
Handoul al-Hajouri, near Qat Old Qat Market. While we werewalking, I heard a sound, a sound of huge explosion. I was
injured in my right leg by fragments. As I got a broken leg, I wascarried to here (Al Askari Hospital) and yesterday I underwent
a surgery for healing the injury. Regarding my friend, he wasinjured in his head by fragments." He confirmed that Houthi
militias, stationing in Sirwah and Makhdra were the party who
fired the rocket.

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Victims Information
S.

Name

Age

StatusType of injury

1

Aref Abulmalik Saleh

27

Killed2BadahDirweesh Ali

38

Killed3

Adel Saleh al-Minnah

12

Killed4

Abdulmajeed Ali al-Wafi

25

InjuryModerate

5

Mohammad Ahmad
Musleh30

InjuryModerate

6

Mohammad Ali Ma'aroof

28

InjuryModerate

7

Abbas Hassan Humaid

30

InjuryModerate

8

Saif Ali Ali

20

InjuryModerate

9

Abdo Ali Mohammad Ali

66

InjuryModerate

10

Bakr Mohammad Ali alMatari

27

InjuryModerate

11

Salah Ahmad Abu Bakr

38

InjuryModerate

12

Khaled Ali Hayel

30

InjuryModerate

13

Emad Amin Naser

30

InjurySevere14

QasemAbdo Ali

60

InjurySevere15

KhaledAref Mubarak

20

InjurySevere16

Ammar Hassan Esa

20

InjuryMiddle17

Jandol Mohammad alHajori

18

InjuryMiddle18

Mohammad Ahmad alHajori

20

InjurySevere19

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3- Ballistic Missile Fell on Hussein Al-Sawadi'sHouse, On Wednesday 22,1, 2020.
The incident:
On Wednesday 22,1, 2020, a ballistic missile fell on the house of MP
Hussein Al-Sawadi, who is member of the Public Prosecution Officeand displaced in the city of Marib, killing a woman and two girls andwounding five others, including a woman and a child.
-Anwar Hussain Al-Sawadi ,40, who lives in his father's house, says: "I
was playing with my niece in the hall, and then taken aback by explosion,
where the world went dark in front of me and lost consciousness until
I woke up in the hospital. There were 6 families inside the house which
was full of children", adding that his niece, Rania Saddam Hussein AlSawadi, has pieces of missile's shrapnel in her body, in addition to hersister (Dowa), and his wife ,Aisha Abdul Salam Hamid Muhammad alDarwish ,(47).
Anwar Hussein's neighbor said "while I was chewing qat in my houseand my children were with me ,we heard explosion and our house washorrifically filled with dust, the windows were torn off, and doors opened
due to the pressure of the missile explosion . The children were runningout and saying, it fell (indicating that the missile fell on their house).
I went out to see the missile landed on our neighbor (Al-Sawadi). A
woman and girl were martyred in the same moment ,and we pulled out
victims and took the injured to the hospital. Among those injured wasa girl-child who had been in critical condition and passed away a daylater.
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and Zayed Hussein Hussein and Massad Hussein Hussein were all
injured in the same incident."
Eyewitnesses confirmed that the missile was fired from the westernpart controlled by the Houthi militia. According to an official reportissued by the Technical Insurance Department of the Yemeni Ministryof Defense, the missile is likely to be (Badr F) missile, which is owned
by Houthi militia and announced about it in April 2019. The report
indicated that Iran was the one who provided the Houthi militia with thecomponents of this missile.
Victims Information
Victims Information
S.

Name

Age

Status1

Aisha Abulsalam Mohammed AlSawadi

30

Killed2

Rania Sadam Hussein Al-Sawadi

12

Killed3

Doa'a Masa'ad Huseein Al-Sawadi

3

Killed4

Anwar Hussein Hussein Al-Sawadi

42

Injury5Masa'ad Hussein Hussein Al-Sawadi

35

Injury6

Zayed Hussein Hussein Al-Sawadi

29

Injury7

Warda'a Alawi Ali Al-Khadher AlSawadi

39

Injury8

Amal Nour Hussein AL-Sawadi

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4- Targeting Medical Facilities:
Targeting of Marib Hospital, on April 3,2016.
Incident:
Houthi militia stationed in Hailan Mountain and Al-Mukhdara
fired a Katyusha rocket on Sunday, April 3,2016, on Marib
Hospital. The attack resulted in killing three persons, one ofthem a physician, and wounding 14 more.
Ali Abudullah Naji, a medical worker in' Emergency Ward'
reported that he along with colleagues were in front of theEmergency Ward as a Katyusha rocket fallen down within thehospital's walls. He said:" We realized that it was apparently
a rocket. Some colleagues and persons of the patients'
companions moved to the scene and carried the casualties".
"Personally, I headed with my colleagues to the Emergency
Ward to receive the casualties. Some of them were admitted
to the Operations Room" because they were critically injured",
added Naji.
Another eyewitness, Abdulbasit Al-Miseeri, one of the hospital's
staffs said:" When we heard the rocket bang in the center ofthe hospital venue, I moved with colleagues to scene, I saw
the causalities with their bloods". He went on to narrate" I was
deeply shocked and terrified as I saw our colleague doctor
Foad Al-Rahimi among the causalities who dead immediately.
The victims included soldiers, patients and their companions".
Abdulbasit confirmed that three people killed and 14 injured in
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Victims Information
S

Nametype of abuse

Place of injury

1)

Foad Ahmed Esma'aeel
Al-Rahimi

Killing

2)

Ali Mohammed Gharib
Ashbwani

Killing3)

Faisal Saleh Al-Ahmdi

Killing

4)

Esam Abbas Arrajihi

Serious injury

Scattered5)Luhman Saleh Mossa'd
Arashidi

Serious injury

Leg/back

6)

A'llow Abdulrahman
Azoa'ri

Serious injury

Scattered7)

Waleed Ali Hassan Arrajihi

Moderate injury

Scattered8)

Ali Mansour Hassan
Asheikh

Serious injury

In the leg

9)

Ahmed Zain Allah Moneef

Serious injury

In the back10)

Taha Saleh Ahmed AlBasheri

Small injury

Head/Leg

11)

Zaqaria Yahya Al-Hajjaji

Small injury

In chest

12)

Hadi Naji Abdullah
Mothana

Small injury

Scattered13)

Mohammed Saleh Taj
Addin

Small injury

Scattered

14)

Ghalib Naji Ahmed Assa'di

Small injury

Scattered

15)

Abdullah Saleh Tohal
Drban

Small injury

Scattered

16)

Saleem Mohammed Sarea

Small injury

Scattered

17)

Khalid Abdullah Saleh
JameelModerate injury

Scattered

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5- Mine Explosion in Jawf Crossroad, Majzer, Marib,
March 3,2016.
Incident:
On Thursday, March 3, 2016, 10:00 AM, a landmine plantedby Houthi militia at Jawf Crossroad killed citizen Ali Hussein
Raqib and his daughter.
Faisal Ali Hassan, 30, says: After liberating our area from
Houthi militias, Ali Hussein Raqib was driving his car-Model
83- and his daughter Ali'ah,10, back home. And when theydrove out from asphalted road, a landmine exploded the car,leaving it and people inside into smithies.
The witness Mohammad Rashed Hussein said he was driving
towards Jawf Crossroad when he heard the explosion of themine. And when he went to the place of the incident, he foundthe mine had bombed onto the car of Ali Hussein Raqib,
adding the mine destroyed the car and killed the driver andhis daughter.

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6-An Elderly Woman and a Child Were injured in
Mine Explosion in Mahilyah District, July 13,2020.
The Incident:
On Monday, July 13,2020 ,a landmine went off in Shajan area
in Mahaliya district, southwest of Marib, injuring the elderly
Masa'ada Ali Hussein al-Hasani ,55, and a 7-year-old girlTaqiya Abdurabah Dhaifallah.
The uncle of the girl Ali Dhaif Allah Al-Nahmi ,26 years old,
confirms that his grandmother Masa'ada's was accompanying
the child Taqiya to bring water on the donkey,and when they
got closer to the water source, a landmine,which planted by
Houthis, exploded, killing the donkey ,and severely injuring
Masa'ada and Taqiya. They were taken to Marib for treatment.
Eyewitness (A.A.A.) confirms that Houthi militia had planted thelandmine in a bid to impede the national army from advancing
towards their( Houthis) battlefronts.
Victims Information
S

Name

Age

Type of Abuse

1)

Taqiah Abdurabah
Dhaifallah Abdulaah

7

Serious injury

2)

Masa'ada Ali Hussein AlHassaini

55

Serious injury

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7- Disappearing Citizen Rabi Saleh Mabkhout Rabi ,September 5,2016.
The incident :Houthi militias in Sirwah arrested Citizen Rabi Saleh Mabkhout
while in his way home at Sirwah Market in Noah Valley.
Abu Bakr Khaled says despite war conditions waged by the
militias ,Rabi Saleh Mabkhout remained in his home and near
our relatives’ houses in Sirwah in order to take care and protect
them from being stormed by the militias or playing with theirpossessions as they did with houses of other citizens. One
day, while he was back from market with his wife and children,the militias kidnapped him at a checkpoint near his house.
Ali Saleh Rabi says that the militias kidnapped Rabi in frontof his children and his wife and since that time he has been
disappeared, noting that the militias took Rabi to Sana'aand rejected to unearth his fate. And after pressure by the
locals two months later, the locals and the militias agreed onallowing only his mother to see him a day later at Assabieen
Square. When she met him at a military armored vehicle amidtightened guard for only ten minutes, he informed his motherthat the militias forced him to sign a number of pipers and hiseyes are blindfolded and did not know what was written.

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8- Looting and Detonating houses of Ahmed andMobarq Ali Ashulaif, March 28,2015.
The Incident:
Houthi militia detonated and demolished the two houses of
Ahmed and Mobarq Ali Ashulaif, in the area of Serwah, western
Marib. The mosque also was bombed. They detonated thehouses after they had looted the properties the couple ofhouses contained.
Sheikh Ahmed Ali Ashulaif reported that he had been critical ofthe militia, opposed to their existence in their region and resistedthem along with many of the region residents. However, themilitiamen forced them to leave their own houses, then theylooted their properties and detonated the two houses and thenearby mosque with T.N.T.
Sheikh Ashualif added that a Houthi leader phoned him one
day earlier, notified him that they would detonate the house.
Ali Hassan Mobaraq (27), an eyewitness from Sirwah region,
said:" Houthi militia had detonated the two houses of Ahmedand Ali Ashulaif, the mosque also was detonated".
Mobaraq continued to say:" The houses and mosque werebuilt of white marble stones. Furniture, very expensive quality,
electronic sets, doors and windows all were looted. Vehicles
and heavy equipment were used in the marble and granite
factory owned by sheikh Ahmed Ashulaif were looted too".
The eyewitness gave a detailed report about the equipment the
militiamen looted as follow: (3) Mercedes Lorry used to carrywater, (1) Volvo truck laden with the equipment of the marble
and granite factory with total coast estimated ($2500000 ), (2)electricity generators ( 250KWT), (10 Valve ) water barrier withtotal cost estimated at (800,000, UAE Dirham). In addition to(1) Gantry Crane, (3) lorries and three Toyota 4 WD.
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9- Blowing up Al Salah School in Al Rawdh in Majzar
District, on February 26 , 2020.
The Incident:
Houthi militia blew up Al Salah School on Wednesday, February 26, 2020.
Teacher (A.SH) confirms that the Houthi militia, after taking control of
the Majzar district at the beginning of this year, captured and looted
many public properties, as well as stationed inside, adding that they had
disrupted the educational process in many schools. He said that the
Houthi militia had planted bombs in Al Salah primary school ,Al-Rawdh(Al Salah) area and then detonated it.

10- Targeting Oil Pump Station of Kawfal on April 5,
2020.
The Incident:
On Sunday, April 5, 2020, Houthi militia targeted Kawfal station with anumber of Katyusha rockets and mortar shells, where 3 shells fell at thestation, setting fire which led to its total destruction.
The journalist Abdullah Abu Saad ,38, said "I was at Serwah front, covering
the confrontations there where the missiles were raining down on Kawfal
area, about 10 km away from the confrontation areas. 3 Missiles fell
inside the station, resulted in the burning of the station due to the oil in
it and the pipeline.
A native inhabitant (F.S.A) in Kawfal area said he was near that day when
Houthis launched many rockets ,some of which landed on Kawfal station,
burning and destroying it completely.

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