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The organization Airwars, which specializes in tracking the human impact of military operations, has revealed horrific figures regarding civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen during a military campaign launched by the administration of President Donald Trump in March and April 2025.
According to the report, released last Thursday, the airstrikes resulted in the deaths of at least 224 civilians over just 52 days — a number nearly equal to the total civilian death toll from 23 years of U.S. military involvement in Yemen since 2002, which stands at 258 civilian victims.
The organization described the death toll as “unprecedented” in terms of intensity and lethality, noting that the recent campaign under the Trump administration recorded the highest civilian casualty rate of any U.S. military campaign in the country’s history.
Commenting on the report, Airwars Executive Director Emily Tripp stated, “Western and international media have largely ignored the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, effectively providing implicit cover for this kind of violation to continue without accountability.”
She added, “These numbers cannot be separated from the broader political context, where civilian lives are reduced to statistics in official reports, while the real suffering experienced by people on the ground is ignored.”
In its conclusion, Airwars called for an independent and transparent international investigation into the recent U.S. air campaign in Yemen and urged accountability for any potential war crimes. The organization also demanded that journalists and human rights organizations be granted access to affected sites to document violations and support victims.
The organization emphasized that the time has come to put an end to policies that allow such extensive use of military force with impunity, urging the international community to reaffirm the principles that should govern armed conflict — foremost among them, the distinction between military and civilian targets, and the avoidance of disproportionate harm.
