NRC condemns targeting Norwegian Council facility

YemenExtra

SH.A.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (National Committee for Refugees) strongly condemned the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes which targeted Hadda residential neighborhood of Sanaa last week, which led to the destruction of one of Norwegian Refugee Council facilities in violation of the 1951 International Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol.

The Committee called, in a statement called on the international community to pressure on countries of aggression to stop the repeated targeting of humanitarian workers, and innocent civilians.

The Committee reiterated the importance of the international community to held its responsibilities towards opening a comprehensive investigation into all crimes committed by the aggression in Yemen.

A series of violations and crimes continued at all levels in all Yemeni cities, provinces and villages by the coalition’s daily target directly or indirectly, a suffocating siege and systematic destruction of the infrastructure and economic and everything related to human life.