The Civil Commission for House Bombing Victims organized today, Wednesday, in the city of Marib, a hearing session for women affected by the crime of bombing houses in the governorates of Al-Jawf and Marib under the slogan "Yemeni women: the suffering of bombing and displacement in Marib and Al-Jawf ... new crimes."

At the opening of the session, the chairwoman of the Commission, Mrs. Khadija Ali, confirmed that women and children are among the groups most affected by the crime of bombing houses and displacing families.

She added that the Commission implements programs for those affected, whether in the financial aspect or providing psychological support to the people and that the Commission seeks to help the largest number of those affected.

She said that the Commission is working to complete the documentation of all cases of houses that were blown up by the Houthi militia in all governorates and that the biggest challenge facing the completion of documentation represents in the governorates that are still under the control of the Houthi militia.

In a previous report issued last September, the Commission revealed the number of houses that were blown up by the Houthi militia in 17 governorates, which reached 810 houses.

At the hearing session, Umm Al-Qassam from Al-Jawf governorate spoke about the suffering she faced after the Houthi militia occupied Al-Jawf in 2015-2020.

Umm Al-Qassam reviewed the story of her repeated displacement and the material and psychological damage she, her family and children suffered from, where the militias looted all the contents of these homes before detonating them, and that most of the families had to leave with only the clothes they wore.

After the Houthi militia took control of the Al-Matoun Directorate in July 2015, Umm Al-Qassam said that the Houthi militia blew up more than ten homes in the Directorate, including four homes belonging to her father and a fifth house belonging to her uncle.

She added that they were displaced and lived in the tents that they set up in the Al-Abr area before they fled again to Marib, and then they returned to the city of Al-Hazm in Al-Jawf after its liberation from the militias and built a house for them in the city, but they were forced to flee from it again after the city fell to the militias in March last year.

She added that her son, who was under the age of 17, was greatly affected after the bombing of houses and had a motive of revenge as a result of the crimes of the Houthi militia and moved to fight against them on the fronts and later martyred.

She confirmed that she and a group of women in the Al-Matoun Directorate had completed building a center to serve the area's women in the field of literacy and teaching them sewing and computers, but after the militias took control of the Directorate, the center and her house were blown up because she was responsible for training at the center.

In her third displacement from Al-Jawf after it fell to the militias in March 2020, she said that she left in her car with her 7 children, and was afraid while she was walking in the desert, not knowing where to go.

"I went out using my car with my children, and we left behind all our possessions, and we did not know where to go and we did not know the way to Marib," she added.

She added that when she was on her way in the desert to escape from the militias, she fell into the hands of a gang of highway robbery and looting and They asked her to hand them her car, but she refused and convinced them that the car was all they had.

For her part, Dr. Afrah al-Hajri (a specialist psychologist) spoke about the psychological effects that children and women are exposed to due to war, displacement and bombing of homes.

She emphasized that all members of the community in the camps and areas where the fighting is taking place suffer from psychological trauma and are considered in psychiatry to be psychologically handicapped due to the violations that they live, but its symptoms appear more often in women and children.

Dr. al-Hajri mentioned a number of psychological symptoms that children suffer from, including loss of confidence, a sense of isolation, weakness, disturbance of concentration, deteriorating health, loss of values, high levels of aggression, loss of hope and other symptoms.

Dr. Afrah confirmed that are very tragic cases in the camps due to psychological trauma and frequent displacement, targeting the camps with shelling, and children watching their peers while they are being killed or amputating their limbs, which creates difficult psychological cases for them, calling on the responsible authorities to open centers to rehabilitate cases affected by war psychologically.