The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Yemeni government, Muammar Al-Eryani, condemned and denounced in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the terrorist Houthi militia affiliated with Iran, which led to the injury of (34) children, five of whom were in critical condition, after the explosion of an explosive device left from the remnants of a previous training program it had organized at Al-Qalis School. In the Bani Matar District, Sana’a Governorate, under the name of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” course.

Muammar Al-Eryani said in a press statement, “This heinous crime is reminiscent of the crime of the terrorist Houthi militia exploiting the educational process, schools, and classrooms in areas forcefully under its control, and using it as its headquarters and camps for recruitment and weapons training, and stores of weapons, ammunition, mines, and explosive devices, without regard for the lives of people.” Children are innocent."

Al-Eryani added, "The terrorist Houthi militia is trying with all ugliness and contempt to disavow this crime by claiming that the exploded object is a remnant of war, while the truth is known by the people of the region, which did not witness any military confrontations and was not a military operation zone, and that the school was not subjected to any targeting." It was not deserted, and remained open and receiving students throughout the past years.

Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations, and human rights and child protection organizations, most notably UNICEF, to issue a clear condemnation of this heinous crime, and to exert real pressure on the Houthi militia to stop the militarization of education and endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, and to immediately begin classifying it as a “terrorist organization.” International".