The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has strongly condemned airstrikes by Saudi-led military coalition, which hit late on Saturday a security facility, killing dozens of prisoners and security officers in western Yemen. 

In a statement posted on Facebook today afternoon, Karman said, “I condemn in the strongest terms the bombing of the prison in Hodeida’s al-Zaydiyah district on Saturday, leaving scores of martyrs and wounded”. 

The militia, as she pointed out, had allocated the targeted place to accommodate hundreds of abductees and those who have been forcibly disappeared. 

“I similarly condemn enforced disappearances and abductions against thousands of opponents since the militia has taken over Yemen’s capital Sana’a”, she stressed. 

She also added that she strongly condemns yesterday’s another bombing of two houses in Taiz’s al-Selw district, which killed nine martyrs and left a number of wounded.   

Mrs. Karman reiterated the need to respect for humanitarian law and spare civilians from the horrors of war and conflict in Yemen. 

Scores of prisoners and security officers were reported killed after Saudi-led fighter jets carried out a number of air raids on a security facility in western Yemen, according to Reuters.

The airstrikes, on Saturday evening, struck a security complex, including a prison, in the port city of Hodeida on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, which is controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi militia.

With the support of forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the militia carried out a coup against the internationally recognized President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi in early 2015, seizing control of many cities.