Nobel Peace Prize Winner and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has mocked the results of the investigation mounted by the Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) into Saudi-led Arab coalition’s

attack on a funeral gathering in the Houthi-held capital Sana’a on last Saturday, which killed at least 140 people according to UN estimate.  

Commenting on what the investigative body of Saudi-led military coalition has reached, Karman said, in a statement on social media, “if Yemeni Presidency of the General Chief of Staff has even kites, we would say “wow!”. 

“How much those, who have justified the crime, will feel ashamed", she wondered. 

In a statement published today by the Arab coalition’s JIAT, “a party affiliated to the Yemeni Presidency of the General Chief of Staff wrongly passed information that there was a gathering of armed Houthi leaders in a known location in Sanaa, and insisted that the location be targeted immediately”. 

“The coalition's Air Operations Centre in Yemen also failed to obtain approval for the strike from commanders, a violation of protocol”, JIAT said in the statement. 

It urged to begin an immediate review of the rules of engagement, calling for compensation for the families of the victims and "appropriate action" that should be taken against those who caused the incident, without elaborating.

She strongly criticized the inquiry carried out by the Joint Incidents Assessment Team, saying, “Whoever wants to know the exact meaning of “an excuse is uglier than the guilt itself” should only follow JIAT’s inquiry about the funeral hall.”

“To stop justifying the crime by some, we say that even if the hall were full of militants, they would be deemed to be civilians, and therefore any attack on them would be a crime against humanity as they are not in a battlefield according to international law”, she concluded her statement.

Yemen’s Nobel Laureate had condemned with the strongest term Saturday’s air strike that hit a funeral Hall in the rebel-controlled capital Sana’a and killed at least 140 people according to UN estimate, considering it as a crime against humanity and stressing that there is no statute of limitations on such crime.