The undersigned human rights organizations express their extreme astonishment and astonishment at Security Council Resolution No. 2722, which was adopted by the Council on 1/10/2024, in which the Council condemned the measures taken by the Yemeni army to respond to the crimes of the occupying entity and apartheid against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Which came as a result of the failure of the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities to maintain international peace and security and put an end to the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the occupying entity in full view of the countries of the whole world. Human rights organizations remind the Security Council that (13) of its member states voted on 12/8/2023 in favor of a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and the draft fell due to the American veto against it, in addition to the fact that the United Nations General Assembly had previously voted With a majority of 153 countries in favor of a recommendation calling for a ceasefire.

The United States of America employed Resolution 2722 to launch aggressive attacks against Yemen because of its movement in the name of the international community to protect a public interest of the international community, which is to prohibit the crime of genocide and prevent its commission. The non-military countermeasures taken by Yemen to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli entity are aimed at pressuring it to stop its international crimes, especially since the international community and the United Nations failed to do so.

The countermeasures taken by Yemen find their basis in the articles on the responsibility of states for non-military and internationally legitimate acts, which require states to cooperate in order to put an end to a situation that includes a serious violation of a peremptory international norm. In addition, the aforementioned articles sanction countermeasures against any international breach of obligations that are binding on all. Or a general decision in the general interest of the international community. Yemen has only resorted to military measures as an exception, and in principle it has taken pressure measures to impose a siege on the Israeli entity until it stops its crimes. The use of non-military measures came as a result of the paralysis of the international community and the Security Council in ending the commission of these massacres and atrocities. It is not legally and morally acceptable for countries to remain spectators to crimes that are unprecedented in contemporary history. The issue is not a matter of positive legitimacy as much as it is a matter of international legitimacy.

The signatory human rights organizations believe that Security Council Resolution No. 2722 and the Anglo-Saxon aggression carried out by the American-British arm would undermine the foundations of the contemporary international legal system, but rather contradict peremptory rules in international law, and states must condemn that aggression and stand up to it out of concern for the requirements of legality. International law and to maintain the pivotal pillars and foundations of the contemporary international law system.

Based on the above, the undersigned human rights organizations condemn the American-British aggression against Yemen and consider it a violation of Yemen’s sovereignty on the one hand and a continuation of the aggression announced by Washington on March 26, 2015, in addition to being an aggression that contributes with all its military, diplomatic, media and intelligence capabilities as a partner of the occupation and apartheid entity in the war. Genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and aims to divert attention from what is going on in the corridors of the International Court of Justice and obscure the occupation forces’ continuation of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Human rights organizations express their confidence in the ability of the Yemeni people to defeat the goals of this brutal aggression, and continue to support the struggle of the Palestinian people to stop the Israeli aggression and lift the ongoing siege imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza since 2005.

Finally, the organizations call on all free people in the world to condemn this American-British aggression against Yemen, which threatens global peace and security.

Signatories (in alphabetical order):

1. Maghreb Coordination of Human Rights Organizations (includes 26 human rights organizations in Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya)
2. Tunisian General Labor Union
3. General Federation of Yemeni Trade Unions
4. Palestinian Women's Labor Union
5. Union of Palestinian Women’s Action Committees
6. Jordanian Federation of Independent Trade Unions
7. The Tunisian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (includes 8 human rights organizations)
8. The Human Rights Coalition to Stop the Aggression, Lift the Siege, and Build Peace in Yemen (includes 10 organizations from ten Arab countries)
9. Moroccan Coalition of Human Rights Bodies (includes 23 bodies)
10. Academic gathering in Lebanon to support Palestine/Lebanon
11. Cultural Rally for Democracy/Iraq
12. Association of NGOs (includes 50 organizations)/Lebanon
13. Alliance of Mauritanian Professors
14. Lebanese Democratic Women's Gathering
15. Syrian Coalition Against the Death Penalty ( SCODP )
16. The Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty
17. The Iraqi Alliance of Human Rights Organizations (includes 55 human rights organizations)
18. Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty
19. The Syrian Feminist Alliance to activate Security Council Resolution 1325
20. The Yemeni Coalition Against the Death Penalty
21. Jordanian Society for Human Rights
22. Civil Solidarity Association-Mousset, Tunisia
23. Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Morocco ( ASDHOM )
24. Women's Action Association/Palestine
25. Al-Rowad Society for Culture and Arts - Aida Camp - Bethlehem / Palestine
26. Lebanese Association of Democratic Jurists
27. Palestinian Working Women Association for Development/Palestine
28. Arab Women Association in Jordan
29. Moroccan Association for Human Rights
30. Mauritanian Society for Human Rights
31. Najda Social Association for Women’s Development/Palestine
32. Juzoor Association for Citizen Rights/Jordan
33. Citizenship Bridges Association/Tunisia
34. José Martí Association for Arab-American Solidarity
35. Rachel Corrie Association for Solidarity between Peoples
36. Candles Association for Equality/Morocco
37. Mothers School Association/Palestine
38. Orient Forum for Freedom and Peace Association/Lebanon
39. Protecting human rights defenders in the Arab world/France
40. Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights
41. Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights
42. Association of Women Heads of Households from Mauritania
43. Iraqi Human Rights Trainers Association
44. Freedom Pioneers for Training on Integrity and Human Rights/Jordan
45. The Jordanian Network for Human Rights (includes 11 human rights organizations)
46. International Network for Human Rights and Development/France
47. Global Network for the Defense of the Palestinian People
48. Women's Network for Peace and Security/Yemen
49. The Syrian National Network for Civil Peace and Community Safety
50. One Justice/France
51. Committees for the defense of human rights and democratic freedoms in Syria
52. Syrian Medical Committee/Paris
53. Popular Committees to Resist Settlement and the Wall/Palestine
54. Arab Committee for Human Rights/Paris
55. Vigilance Committee for Democracy in Tunisia, Belgium
56. The Palestinian Initiative to Deepen Global Dialogue and Democracy - Key
57. International Council in Support of Fair Trials and Human Rights (ICSFT).
58. World Council for Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
59. Justice Lawyers is an organization concerned with rights and freedoms/Yemen
60. School of Human Rights / Kuwait
61. Arab World Observatory for Democracy and Elections (Observatory)
62. Arab Observatory for Human Rights and Citizenship/Lebanon
63. French Observatory for Human Rights/Paris
64. Mauritanian Observatory for Human Rights
65. Hurriyat Observatory / Morocco
66. Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”/Palestine
67. Center for Arab Media Women/Jordan
68. Center for Research, Legal Consultation and Protection for Women/Palestine
69. Al Badil Center for Studies and Research/Jordan
70. Khiam Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture/Lebanon
71. Center for Feminist Studies/ Palestine
72. Center for the Defense of Civil Liberties and Rights “Hurriyat”/ Palestine
73. The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession “Musawa”
74. Tunis Center for Freedom of the Press
75. Roots Center for Human Rights/Jordan
76. Geneva Center for Democracy and Human Rights
77. Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies
78. Amman Center for Human Rights Studies/Jordan
79. Metro Center for Defending Journalists' Rights/Iraq
80. Call of Karama Center for Rights and Development/Yemen
81. Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights/Geneva
82. Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
83. International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights/Geneva
84. Yemen Media Forum / Yemen
85. Houran Forum for Citizenship/Syria
86. Bahrain Forum for Human Rights
87. Forum for Renewal of Citizen and Democratic Thought / Tunisia
88. The National Civil Forum in Sudan (includes 54 civil society organizations)
89. African Human Rights Monitoring Organization/Morocco
90. International House for Human Rights/France
91. Tunisian Organization Against Torture
92. Gender Studies and Information Organization/Iraq
93. Organization for the Defense of Victims of Violence/Geneva
94. Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria
95. Habitat Organization for Rights and Development/Yemen
96. National Organization for Human Rights in Syria
97. The Yemeni Organization for Interfaith and Cultural Dialogue
98. Intisaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights/Yemen
99. Insan Organization for Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
100. Freedom House Organization for Defending Human Rights and Combating Slavery and its Remnants/Mauritania
101. Organization for Freedom of Media and Expression. Hatem/Morocco
102. Organization for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Peace/Yemen
103. Desert Youth Organization for Development and Human Rights/Libya
104. Defenders for Human Rights, Morocco
105. Yemen Organization for Defending Democratic Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
106. Middle East Foundation for Development and Human Rights/Yemen
107. National Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking/Yemen
108. Foundation for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Social Peace / Yemen
109.  Community Development and Protection Support Foundation - Aden / Yemen
110. Mada Foundation for Human Rights/Iraq
111. Palestinian Journalists Syndicate
112. Yemeni Bar Association
113. National Union of Tunisian Journalists
114. The International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People “Hashd”
115. Sahel Organization for Defending Human Rights and Supporting Education and Social Peace/Mauritania