Sa'ada - Saba:
Emergency teams from the Executive Mine Action Center participated in recovering the bodies of victims of the U.S. aggression at the shelter for undocumented migrants in Saada Governorate, as part of the Center's responsibility to clear unexploded remnants and remove hazards from remaining weapons.
In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the Center confirmed that its technical teams found remnants of the U.S.-made **GBU-39 JDAM** bunker-buster bomb, which was used to target the African migrants' shelter, killing and injuring around 115 people.
The Center noted that the evidence and scale of destruction confirm that this type of U.S. weapon was responsible, further corroborated by published reports on the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) page regarding the arming of American aircraft with such internationally prohibited munitions.
The Center emphasized that the use of such highly explosive weapons against civilian infrastructure, without taking the most basic precautionary measures to protect civilians and detention facilities, constitutes a grave violation of international law under Article 8 of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols.
The statement highlighted that this bomb is among the most dangerous internationally banned weapons, with catastrophic effects on civilians and civilian infrastructure. Upon detonation, temperatures reach 3,500°C, leading to widespread cancer, birth defects, and fatal deformities. It also devastates the environment, contaminating soil, air, and groundwater, while obliterating natural life in affected areas.
The Center stressed the urgent need to comply with international humanitarian law, including the obligation to protect civilians' right to life and to refrain from using banned bombs in indiscriminate attacks that cause mass civilian casualties and severe damage to civilian infrastructure.
