The official spokesperson for the General Directorate of Civil Defense, Lt. Col. Mohammed Al-Hammad has stated that the Civil Defense received a report about the fall of a hostile projectile launched by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia from inside Yemeni territory towards Samtah governorate in Jazan region. He further said that the civil defense teams and the competent authorities were immediately transferred to the site, and it turned out that a military projectile fell on a commercial store on the main street, resulting in two deaths of a citizen and a resident of Yemeni nationality, in the addition to the injury of (7) civilians including (6) citizens and a Bangladeshi resident, citing their minor and medium wounds as a result of flying shrapnel. Lt. Col. Al-Hammad reported that the injured persons were taken to the hospital to receive the necessary treatment, pointed out that two shops and (12) vehicles were also damaged by the flying shrapnel. He stressed that the attempts to target civilians and civilian objects are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, as procedures adopted in such cases were immediately carried out.
