The National Commission to Investigate Alleged Human Rights Violations announced on February 25, 2025, that it had recorded 340 violations stemming from indiscriminate shelling by the Iran-backed Houthis in Hayfan, a district in southwest Yemen’s Taiz province. The attacks have claimed numerous lives and left a trail of devastation, according to a statement relayed by Saba News Agency.

Led by Ishraq Al-Maqtari, the commission conducted a four-day field investigation across Hayfan’s villages and districts, including Al-Aboos, Al-Athawer, and Al-Mafalis. This marked the first human rights mission to the area. The team interviewed 1,020 individuals—victims, eyewitnesses, and informants—cataloging their accounts of suffering and pleas for justice under international humanitarian law.

The findings painted a grim picture: women and children bore the brunt of the violence, many displaying severe injuries such as shattered limbs or lost mobility and vision. The commission also documented widespread destruction, collecting fragments of projectiles that had struck key infrastructure—main roads, water tanks, and three schools. Photos, videos, and survivor testimonies, including from landmine victims, further corroborated the scale of the damage.

In their fieldwork, the team encountered dozens of displaced residents, forced from their homes by armed aggression and now living in dire conditions