Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port last month appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians, which may amount to a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
Israel said on 20 July that its warplanes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah.
The attack targeted oil facilities and a power station, and HRW said it killed at least six people and wounded at least 80.
It took place a day after a Houthi drone hit Israel’s economic hub, Tel Aviv, killing one person, which HRW said also may constitute a war crime.
The retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Hodeidah hit more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in the port, as well as a power plant in the province’s Salif district, Human Rights Watch said.
“The attacks appeared to cause disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian objects. Serious violations of the laws of war committed willfully, that is deliberately or recklessly, are war crimes.”
(Reuters)
