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June 5, 2025

Human Rights Watch Says U.S. Committed Apparent War Crime in Yemen Port Attack
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Human Rights Watch is calling for an investigation into the U.S. bombing
of an oil port on Yemen's Red Sea coast on April 17 that killed 84
people and wounded more than 150 others. Forty-nine of the dead were
port workers. Also killed were several truck drivers, two civil defense
workers and workers' family members, including three children. Human
Rights Watch said the U.S. government's decision to strike the oil
facility while hundreds of workers were present shows a "callous
disregard for civilians' lives."


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