29 January: A Day of Violating People and Stone in the Record of Aggression Against Yemen
The twenty-ninth of January marks a bloody milestone in Yemen’s national memory. Its accumulated events over years of U.S.–Saudi–Emirati aggression reveal a systematic criminal approach that targeted people before places, and life before battlefronts—through strikes on residential neighborhoods, factories, service facilities, roads, and bridges. It was a comprehensive war that left no doubt as to its aggressive nature and destructive objectives.
2016: Bombing the Capital and Targeting Factories and Civilian Infrastructure
On 29 January 2016, coalition warplanes committed a horrific crime in the Attan area of Al-Sabeen District in the capital municipality, killing five civilians and injuring others after striking a residential building. The attack triggered rockfalls from Mount Attan that destroyed homes in Al-Salami neighborhood and caused extensive damage to nearby houses.
The targeting extended into the heart of the capital, where national factories were bombed, including Al-Kabous Factory and Bin Shahab Factory for paper tissues and infant milk near the Saudi-German Hospital—an explicit assault on the industrial and food sectors. Airstrikes also hit Al-Zubeiri Street, Al-Nahdain, and Al-Nahda neighborhood, leaving widespread destruction to public and private property.
In Taiz, airstrikes targeted Al-Misrakh District, the veterinary quarantine building in Mokha, and the Al-Hawzan and schools areas in Dhubab, causing severe damage to homes. In Sana’a, the Community College in Sarf was destroyed by eight airstrikes, while Nihm, Khawlan, and Bani Matar were struck, inflicting heavy damage on residential areas and agricultural land.
Yemen Mobile’s communications network in Majzar, Ma’rib, was also destroyed, and wide areas in Sa‘ada and Dhamar were subjected to intensive air raids in a comprehensive military escalation.
2017: Targeting Bridges and Roads; Intensified Airstrikes
On 29 January 2017, the aggression continued to target infrastructure. A man and two children were injured in airstrikes on Irfan, Al-Zuyoud, and Al-Hamali bridges in Mokha and Mawza‘ Districts of Taiz, in an apparent attempt to isolate areas and sever movement routes.
Mokha alone witnessed more than 50 airstrikes, while Dhubab was heavily bombed, including the Al-Omari area. Simultaneously, air raids struck Sirwah in Ma’rib; Haradh and Midi in Hajjah; Nihm and Safan in Sana’a; as well as Al-Bayda and Al-Jawf.
2018: Family Massacres and Cluster Munitions
On 29 January 2018, coalition warplanes committed a horrific massacre against a Yemeni family in Razih District, Sa‘ada Governorate, killing five members of a single family when their home was bombed. Another child was killed by the explosion of a cluster munition remnant in Munabbih District.
Sa‘ada also saw the use of cluster bombs in Wadi ‘Allaf, Sahar District, alongside Saudi rocket and artillery shelling on Razih and Shada—crimes documented internationally. Hajjah, Lahj, and Taiz were likewise targeted, with shelling hitting homes and residential areas.
2019: Targeting Humanitarian Efforts and Residential Neighborhoods
On 29 January 2019, demining team member Assistant Engineer Mohammed Fouad Al-Udhari was killed by the aggression’s mercenaries while on a humanitarian mission to open the Red Sea Mills road in Al-Hudaydah—an act that exposed the targeting of humanitarian work itself.
Al-Tuhayta and Al-Durayhimi Districts and residential neighborhoods in Al-Hudaydah city were subjected to heavy artillery shelling that hit homes, villages, and markets, alongside airstrikes on Hajjah, Sa‘ada, and Ma’rib.
2020: Shelling Homes and Targeting Women and Children
On 29 January 2020, a woman was killed and her daughter injured in Al-Rukab village, Al-Ta‘ziyah District, Taiz, due to mercenary artillery fire. In Al-Hudaydah, shelling struck Al-Dhubayani quarter and 50th Street, while homes and farms in Hays and Bayt Al-Faqih were targeted. Airstrikes also hit Sana’a, Sa‘ada, Ma’rib, and Al-Jawf.
2021: Border Shelling and Aerial Escalation
On 29 January 2021, three civilians were injured by Saudi rocket and artillery fire on Shada border district in Sa‘ada, while airstrikes targeted Al-Dhaher, Sirwah, Madghal, and Al-Jawf. Surveillance aircraft also carried out ten strikes on neighborhoods and districts in Al-Hudaydah, alongside heavy artillery shelling.
2022: Targeting Migrants and Civilians
On 29 January 2022, three civilians were killed and others injured—along with two African migrants—by Saudi army fire in Al-Raqo area, Munabbih District, in a repeated border crime. A child was also killed in shelling on Al-Jabaleya in Al-Hudaydah. Ma’rib endured an intense wave of more than 50 airstrikes in a single day, hitting Al-Wadi, Al-Jubah, Raghwan, Madghal, and Sirwah.
2023: War Remnants Continue to Claim Lives
On 29 January 2023,