Statement by the Entisaf Organization for Women and Child Rights regarding the barbaric Saudi-led targeting of a school, a mosque, and a water project in the Sahar District of Saada Governorate.

On Nov 9, 2026

The Saudi-led aggression targets schoolgirls, water facilities, and mosques, amidst a suspicious silence from the United Nations.

Monday, November 9, 2026

The Entisaf Organization for the Protection of Women and Child Rights condemns the ongoing series of brutal crimes and the systematic war of extermination waged by the Saudi-led aggression forces. These forces aim to crush all foundations of human life and destroy civilian objects across various Yemeni governorates, in blatant defiance of both international law and divine precepts.

In this context, the organization condemns, in the strongest and harshest terms, the horrific and barbaric crime committed today, Monday, November 9, 2026, by the Saudi-led coalition’s air forces, which launched treacherous, direct airstrikes targeting the Al-Harbah area in the Sahar District of Saada Governorate.

These shocking, criminal airstrikes have led to catastrophic consequences, deliberately striking infrastructure, as well as educational and religious facilities, with the intent to inflict maximum terror and destruction.

The aggression also targeted childhood and education through direct bombardment, which left one schoolgirl with severe and grave injuries. Meanwhile, other students at the “Al-Rahma School” in the Al-Harbah area were subjected to extreme terror and deep psychological trauma caused by the blatant explosions that rocked the vicinity of their school—a flagrant violation of all international charters that criminalize the terrorizing of children and the targeting of educational facilities. Places of worship and vital lifelines have also been destroyed. The barbaric bombardment completely leveled the local mosque to the ground, caused severe damage to the Al-Rahma School building, and destroyed the area’s drinking water project. This constitutes a malicious attempt to disrupt the educational process, demolish a spiritual sanctuary for the local residents, and deprive them of essential water—thereby exacerbating their humanitarian suffering under the weight of the ongoing blockade.

Entisaf Organization asserts that the targeting of schools, mosques, and water infrastructure—along with the violation of the innocence of children and students—constitutes full-fledged war crimes and crimes against humanity, which are not subject to any statute of limitations.

The organization holds the Saudi regime fully legally, morally, and criminally responsible for this heinous crime, as well as for the shedding of the innocent blood of the injured student and the devastating psychological trauma inflicted upon her classmates.

Furthermore, the organization strongly condemns the shameful, persistent international silence and the disgraceful negligence shown by the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies. This conduct effectively serves as a cover, an act of complicity, and an implicit partnership that emboldens the aggressor’s air forces to continue targeting civilians and infrastructure in Yemen with total impunity.

The organization also demands an urgent, impartial international investigation into all crimes committed against civilians and children in Saada Governorate and across all Yemeni governorates, and calls for the perpetrators—along with their commanders and financiers—to be prosecuted as tyrannical war criminals before international courts. The organization calls upon all local and international human rights and humanitarian organizations to awaken and fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities by documenting these atrocities, exposing them to global public opinion, and exerting genuine, serious pressure to halt this arrogance and brutal aggression.

The blood of our children, the scattered remains of our mosques, and our destroyed water networks in Saada will remain a curse that haunts the killers—an eternal stain upon the forehead of the international community, which feigns concern for human rights in public while participating in their slaughter on the soil of Yemen.

Issued by the Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights, Sana’a – Monday, November 9, 2026