The Press Pleads for Justice… While Children Are Buried in Silence
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Sanaa experienced one of the most horrific humanitarian tragedies last Wednesday afternoon when Israeli airstrikes targeted the heart of the capital, killing dozens of journalists and civilians in a single moment. What happened was not merely a bombing—it was a massacre against both the press and humanity.
The airstrikes targeted the buildings of the two historic newspapers, 26 September and Al-Yemen, resulting in the martyrdom of 30 Yemeni journalists and more than 200 citizens killed or wounded. The destruction did not stop at the press buildings but extended to neighboring homes, erasing the lives of entire families.
Among the heartbreaking stories is that of the Al-Damadi family, whose lives were wiped out in an instant by Israeli missiles—fifteen women and children buried under the rubble of their home.
At the same moment, children in the neighborhood were eagerly watching the Yemen vs. Saudi Arabia football match, only to have their joy turn into a resounding tragedy beneath the ruins of their homes.
What is even more painful is that some journalists were waiting for the match to end to write news that would bring joy to the hearts of the people—only for the event to turn into a Zionist crime that claimed innocent lives.
The human stories from the heart of the tragedy expose the world’s silence: a father who left for work in the morning and returned in the evening without a family or home; another who stepped out briefly to buy medicine for his daughter, only to return and find that neither child nor home remained.
The neighborhood that once echoed with the laughter and innocence of children’s play has now become an open grave and a witness to a crime that violates all laws and norms.
What deepens the wound is the absence of an international stance.
Had these journalists held Western or Gulf passports, platforms would have been flooded with statements of condemnation and denunciation. But the blood of Yemenis is met with silence, as if their lives are worth less in the scales of “selective humanity.”
The blood of the thirty journalists targeted in two press offices, each over six decades old, alongside hundreds of civilians, pleads with the world today to act, condemn, and hold accountable. Yet, the Israeli occupation, backed by the United States, continues to violate every international taboo, while the global conscience remains lethally silent.
