Sunday, August 8, 2021
Press release
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The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development condemns the bombing of the “Al-Wa’ai Primary” school in the village of Rabat, in the western Yemeni city of Hess using dynamite, and affirms that the right to education is one of the most important human rights but one of the most important economic, social and cultural rights that must be provided to the human being in order to enjoy all his other rights.
The coalition says the Houthis have deprived students of the Hess district in areas under their control from receiving education after they took over schools and turned them into military barracks, booby-trapped some of them and blew up others, and militias resorted to blowing up the school as part of its policy of demolishing educational facilities.
According to the coalition, school demolitions are one of the most brutal violations and crimes, and this attack represents an integrated war crime and the prohibition of international law on the destruction of property, including schools, as stipulated in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Rome Statute 1998, which considers the illegal and widespread destruction of property illegally as “war crimes.”
The coalition appealed for credible investigations and deterrent measures against the Houthis involved in the demolition of schools and humanitarian violations in Yemen’s education sector, and the coalition holds the international community fully responsible for its inaction and silence on these crimes, stressing that the fact that the international community and states are content with some statements of formal condemnation constitute real complicity with terrorism and its crimes and violations.
