On the 13th December 2015, the Saudi led coalition airstrikes bombarded Ghaza village in Harad district in Hajaah province with over 3 raids. The initial death toll was 30 killed and one injured. Women, children and the elderly were among the victims. It was reported that civilian houses were hit and then paramedics and those in cars trying to rescue the victims were also targeted by a double tap strike,
A media representative couldn’t bear looking at a decapitated body of a child while capturing footage. One neighbour commented “The Kingdom of Saudia Arabia have bombed very poor people who don’t even have enough money to buy bread. They are considering us an experiment field, trying out all sorts of weapons from the overcrowded American and European warehouses.”
WARNING: the media below is graphic and distressing.
It is placed here as evidence as war crimes to call for an independent
investigation and to call on the international community to respect the
Arms Treaty by stopping the supply of weapons to Saudi Arabic as they
are clearly targeting civilians.
Beginning the night of July 24 lasting until dawn of July 25 2015, Saudi led coalition forces launched massive air raids on two residential compounds of a steam power plant, in the Yemeni port city of Mokha, Taiz governate. The compounds housed the plant workers and their families. Living in this residential city were 200 engineers and workers, and 600 citizens, as well as a number of displaced families.
At least 65 civilians were killed and many more were wounded, including women, 10 children and the elderly.
It is reported that after the arrival of a number of ambulances bombing returned again to target the paramedics, raising the number of victims, and then further raids were launched along the shoreline to target those people who were trying to flee.
WARNING, the videos below are EXTREMELY GRAPHIC and DISTRESSING.
They are put here as evidence to support the call for an independent
enquiry into war crimes and to call on the West to stop supplying arms
to Saudi Arabia.
HRW reported:
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that killed at least 65 civilians, including 10 children, and wounded dozens in the Yemeni port city of Mokha on July 24, 2015, are an apparent war crime. Starting between 9:30 and 10 p.m., coalition airplanes repeatedly struck two residential compounds of the Mokha Steam Power Plant, which housed plant workers and their family members.
The failure of Saudi Arabia and other coalition members to investigate apparently unlawful airstrikes in Yemen demonstrates the need for the United Nations Human Rights Council to create a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of laws-of-war violations by the coalition, the Houthis, and other parties to the conflict, Human Rights Watch said.
“The Saudi-led coalition repeatedly bombed company housing with fatal results for several dozen civilians,” said Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher. “With no evident military target, this attack appears to be a war crime.”
Human Rights Watch visited the area of the attack a day-and-a-half later. Craters and building damage showed that six bombs had struck the plant’s main residential compound, which housed at least 200 families, according to the plant’s managers. One bomb had struck a separate compound for short-term workers about a kilometer north of the main compound, destroying the water tank for the compounds, and two bombs had struck the beach and an intersection nearby.
Bombs hit two apartment buildings directly, collapsing part of their roofs. Other bombs exploded between the buildings, including in the main courtyard, stripping the exterior walls off dozens of apartments, leaving only the load-bearing pillars standing.
Workers and residents at the compounds told Human Rights Watch that one or more aircraft dropped nine bombs in separate sorties in intervals of a few minutes. All of the bombs appeared intended for the compounds and not another objective.
Human Rights Watch saw no signs that either of the two residential compounds for the power plants were being used for military purposes. Over a dozen workers and residents said that there had been no Houthi or other military forces at the compounds. The power plant and the compound were built in 1986.
Early in the morning of July 25, a news ticker on Al-Arabiya TV, a Saudi-owned media outlet, reported that coalition forces had attacked a military air defense base in Mokha. Human Rights Watch identified a military facility about 800 meters southeast of the Mokha Steam Power Plant’s main compound, which plant workers said had been a military air defense base. The plant workers said that it had been empty for months, and Human Rights Watch saw no activity or personnel at the base from the outside, except for two guards.
Bagil Jafar Qasim, vice director general of the plant, provided Human Rights Watch with a list of 65 people killed in the attack, including 10 children. The list included two people still missing, whom Qasim believed were buried under the rubble and probably dead. Human Rights Watch visited three hospitals in Hodaida that had received 42 wounded from the attack. Several, including an 11-year-old girl, were in critical condition.
Wajida Ahmed Najid, 37, a resident in one of the compounds whose husband is a plant employee, said that when the first strike hit, she grabbed her children close and they huddled together hoping the danger would pass:
"After the third strike the entire building began to collapse on top of us. Then I knew we needed to leave because it was not safe to stay. I grabbed my girls and we started running in the direction of the beach, but as we were running pieces of metal were flying everywhere and one hit Malak, my 9-year-old daughter. Thank God she is going to be okay. While we were running I saw bodies, seven of them, just lying on the ground, in pieces."
A doctor at the hospital told Human Rights Watch that they had removed a metal fragment from Malak’s abdomen.
Khalil Abdullah Aidrus, 35, a nurse at the plant’s clinic, said that he rushed to al-Salam clinic in Mokha city when he heard news of the attack. There, he and other medics administered basic first aid, then sent the wounded on to hospitals in Hodaida. He said that within an hour of the airstrikes they had received at least 30 wounded and 8 bodies. At 1 a.m., he went to the main compound:
"As I walked through the gates I saw my friend, an engineer at the plant, Abdu Samid al-Subaie. He was lying on the ground, just outside his apartment. He had a deep gash to his waist and he was bleeding to death as his two children lay at his side screaming and crying. But it was hopeless. At the same time the airplanes were still buzzing above us. We could hear them for hours afterwards."
Loai Nabeel, 20, who works at a shop in the compound, said he rushed to his family’s apartment when the attack started. A second bomb hit the apartment before he got there, collapsing the roof. He found his mother and younger brother by the entrance and brought them to the beach before he went back to search for his sisters Hadeel, 12, and Taghreed, 17:
"It was dark. It took me 10 minutes to find Hadeel under the rubble. The bomb hit the roof of the room where she was sleeping and her head was seriously wounded. I found Taghreed in another room with minor injuries to her head. Hadeel is still in a coma."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/27/yemen-coalition-strikes-residence-apparent-war-crime
Power plants that produce electricity used by the military are legitimate military targets. However, the harm incurred to the civilian population by an attack on a power plant can be enormous, making its destruction unlawfully disproportionate, as the long-term harm to civilians will be far greater than the immediate military gain.
The Mokha power plant, built in 1986, was not struck in the attack. Human Rights Watch found no sign that either of the two residential compounds for the power plants had been used for military purposes. More than a dozen workers and residents said that there had been no Houthi or other military forces at the compounds.
Early in the morning of July 25, a news ticker on Al-Arabiya TV, a Saudi-owned media outlet, reported that coalition forces had attacked a military air defense base in Mokha. The ticker was swiftly taken down and the story can no longer be found anywhere on Al-Arabiya’s website. Human Rights Watch identified a military facility about 800 meters (875 yards) southeast of the Mokha Steam Power Plant’s main compound, which plant workers said had been a military air defense base. The plant workers said that it had been empty for months, and Human Rights Watch saw no activity or personnel at the base from the outside, except for two guards.
STEAM POWER PLANT RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND, MOKHA, 24 JULY
Coalition forces bombed a residential compound housing workers of the Steam Power Plant and their families in the south-western port city of Mokha on 24 July at approximately 10pm, killing at least 63 civilians and injuring 50 others.
Amnesty International visited the site three days after the airstrike and interviewed 21 residents and plant workers at the site and in five hospitals in Mokha and Hodeida (on the north-western coast). One resident, Amal Sabri, described the incident as “something out of judgement day. Corpses and heads scattered, engulfed by fire and ashes”. According to residents and plant workers, at least six consecutive strikes pounded the housing compound, several targeting the compound cafeteria and maintenance equipment store. Eyewitnesses said that prior to the multiple strikes on the main residential compound an airstrike had targeted a small residential compound 700m to the north of the steam power plant also used to house plant workers.
Amnesty International delegates at the site found no evidence that the residential compounds were being used for any military purposes. According to scores of residents interviewed by Amnesty International, no Huthi fighters were present in the compound, which also housed several families displaced by the conflicts in Ta’iz, Aden and surrounding areas. The nearest military objective, an air force base, is located approximately 800m south east of the residential compounds. It is unclear whether it was also targeted.
55-year-old Qaed Mohamed Abdelqader al-Sabri, a technician at the plant who lost most of his family in the airstrike, told Amnesty International that they were celebrating the birth of his 10-day-old granddaughter when their home was bombed:
“We were all at home celebrating the birth of my granddaughter Alaa’, with neighbours and family. I was about to enter the house when suddenly the door came off as the whole house shook. It was like an earthquake. The first bomb hit the maintenance equipment store, the second bomb hit the cafeteria. There was a moment of silence, which I took advantage of to rescue my family. That is when the third bomb landed. The electricity had gone off, I tried to go inside the house to look for a torch and for my family. I was screaming for my daughters, I could hear others screaming in search of their families. But all I saw was my wife and daughters drowning in their blood. Only my daughters Lina (16) and Samar (26) survived as they had run away to the coast when the strikes happened. Three of my daughters, my wife, my daughter’s husband and my granddaughter Alaa’ were killed.”
Another resident, 24-year-old Alaa Abdeljaber Thabet, recounted the ordeal to Amnesty International:
“The residence streets were bustling, men and children were standing in front of the cafeteria playing billiards. Suddenly I saw a light in the sky, and then an explosion in the residential camp [700m north of the main residential camp] that shook our whole compound. Fear and alarm permeated the whole city… suddenly after two minutes, the first bomb hit our residency targeting the maintenance equipment store. I could hear the plane circling above. I fell down due to the pressure of the explosion. After two minutes I got up to go help move the women and children to the coast where it was safer. After four minutes, the second bomb fell on the cafeteria, around 20 meters away from the first strike on the store. That second strike killed the most… I walked amongst pools of blood and severed limbs, there were over 20 bodies. There were four more explosions after that, people trying to escape. I have still not come to terms with what happened that day until now. I can still see the bodies and the injured and I can hear the screaming all the time.”
Among those displaced by the conflict who were sheltering at the plant housing complex was Redha Mohamed Qaed, a father of six. His relative Abdu Naji al-Bu’dani, an engineer at the plant and a local resident told Amnesty International:
“Redha has come here with his family from Aden, to escape the fighting there. He had planned to go back to Aden the next day (as the Huthis had just been forced out of Aden). When the explosion happened he was sitting next to a window at his sister’s house. He hugged his wife and children to protect them and his back was ripped by shrapnel and he passed away on the spot.”
WARNING: the media below is graphic and distressing.
It is placed here as evidence as war crimes to call for an independent
investigation and to call on the international community to respect the
Arms Treaty by stopping the supply of weapons to Saudi Arabic as they
are clearly targeting civilians.
List of the dead as reported by HRW:
Location: Mokha Steam Power Plant Date: 7/24/2015
Name
Gender
Age
Killed/Wounded
Abdullah Muhammad Moqbel Bazel
Male
Killed
Mazin Ahmed Hassan al-Mujib
Male
Killed
Moath Abdullah Ali Abdullah
Male
Killed
Ali Fazel al-Abti
Male
Killed
Aymen Abdul Karim Bashir
Male
Killed
Wasim Saif Ahmed Asad
Male
Killed
Amro Ahmed Ba Alawi
Male
Killed
Muhammad Muhammad Ali Aqlan
Male
Killed
Khaled Ahmed Muhammad Qasem al-Sabri
Male
Killed
Ahmed Khaled Muhammad Ahmed Ghamazi
Male
Killed
Muhammad Mabruk Ahmed (unclear)
Male
Killed
Ammar Abdul Wasea Andul Waham Ahmed
Male
Killed
Tawfiq Ahmed Said al-Athoori
Male
Killed
Amjad Abdul Karim Bashir
Male
Killed
Muhammad Abdu Hassan al-Sabi
Male
Killed
Ahmed Muhammad Abdu Hassan al-Sabi
Male
Killed
Osama Yusuf Abdul Razaq
Male
Killed
Othman Bajash Othman
Male
Killed
Ahmed Ali Saif al-Adoa
Male
Killed
Bashir al-Salawi
Male
Killed
Thabil Abd al-Rahman Omran Nabil Muhammad Said
Male
Killed
Abd al-Rahman Ghamdan Nabil Muhammad Said
Male
Killed
Aymen Muhammad Ahmed Noaman
Male
Killed
Osama Muhammad Abd al-Hassan al-Absi
Male
Killed
Eissa Muhammad Mahyub
Male
Killed
Abd al-Samad Abd al-Haq al-Sabai
Male
Killed
Hamza Abd al-Rahman Muhammad
Male
Killed
Nazar Muhammadd Abd al-Ghani al-Harmim
Male
Killed
Adib Abd al-Wahab al-Hakimi
Male
Killed
Eissa Muhammad Abd al-Rahim
Male
Killed
Muhammad Adnan Shalan
Male
Killed
Haytham Khaled Muhammad Said al-Sharji
Male
Killed
Shakib Muhammad Abd al-Wadud
Male
Killed
Yusuf Abd al-Razaq al-Hakimi
Male
Killed
unidentified family member
Male
Under 18
Killed
unidentified family member
Male
Killed
unidentified family member
Male
Killed
Sahira Shawqi Shaher al-Adabji
Female
Killed
Bint Ahmed al-Wasabi
Female
Killed
Amana Ahmad Mohsen
Female
Killed
Ala Absi Muhammad Mahyub
Female
Killed
Rasfa Muhammad Qayed
Female
Killed
Asma Muhammad Abd al-Hassan al-Absi
Female
Killed
Eman Qayed al-Sabri
Female
Killed
Doa Qayed al-Sabri
Female
Killed
Sahar Qayed Muhammad al-Sabri
Female
Killed
Nahla Muhammad Ahmed Noaman
Female
Killed
Noha Muhammad Ahmed Noaman
Female
Killed
Thoraya Adib Muhammad Taher
Female
Killed
Nedal Muhammad Abdu
Female
Under 18
Killed
Khaled Ahmed Qasem
Male
Under 18
Killed
Yasser Muhammad Saleh
Male
Under 18
Killed
Visiting child from Aden
n/a
Under 18
Killed
Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
Male
Killed
Wife of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
Female
Killed
1st Child of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
n/a
Under 18
Killed
2nd Child of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
n/a
Under 18
Killed
3rd Child of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
n/a
Under 18
Killed
4th Child of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
n/a
Under 18
Killed
5th Child of Sadeq Abdullah Saleh
n/a
Under 18
Killed
Sameh Muhammad Ali Ahmad
Male
Wounded
Muhammad Najib Muhammad Abd al-Wadoud
Male
Wounded
Hadil Nabil Abdu Hassan
Female
Wounded
Malak Abdu Muhammad al-Azazi
Female
Wounded
Ali Abd al-Salam
Male
Wounded
Tamir Muhammad Hassan
Male
Wounded
Zakaria Najib Muhammad
Male
Wounded
Hussein Samir
Male
Wounded
Haifa Abd al-Samad Abd al-Khaliq
Female
Wounded
Gamila Ali Hizam
Female
Wounded
Gamil Qaid Thabit al-Subaihi
Male
Wounded
Muhammad Ali Tariq
Male
Wounded
Abd al-Wasia Abdullah al-Hakimi
Male
Wounded
*The details of five more casualties are on file with the power plant administration
On 8th June 2015, a Saudi led coalition struck a farm sending 22 family members flying dozens of meters away, killing 2 pregnant women and 3 children and injuring 2 children and an elderly man, all from the same family. This is Amnesty International's report of the incident: BENI MA’ATH, SABR, SAHAR, SA’DA, 8 JUNE On the morning of 8 June, a coalition forces airstrike on a farm in Beni Ma’ath, a rural area north-west of Sa’da city, killed three children and two pregnant women, as well as injuring two children and a 61-year-old man from the Halhal family.
The strikes created a 10-meter wide crater, where Amnesty International found remnants of a US-designed Mark (MK) 80 series general purpose bomb.Survivors told Amnesty International that three consecutive airstrikes hit the farm, sending some of the 22 family members flying dozens of meters away. They said that they did not find the body of one of the children killed in the strike until four days later. Amnesty International found no evidence of military activities around the house, where the family’s meagre possessions were strewn dozens of meters from the ruins of the house.
Ammar Mohammed Halhal, a 28-year-old farmer and father of four who survived the attack, but lost his pregnant wife and his daughter, told Amnesty International:
“I don’t know why they bombed us. We are just simple farmers, we grow qat and vegetables. We are poor and spend our time working to eke a living for our families. They killed us for no reason. My wife, Nabila Ali and my little girl Fatime, my brothers Saqar and Abdullatif, who are both two years old, and my stepmother Safia Ghaleb were all killed. My wife and my stepmother were both in the last month of their pregnancies. My father and my little brother and sister, both three years old, were injured. The bombs were so powerful that we were blown far from the house. It took four days to find the body of little Abdullatif; he had been blown more than 50 meters away”.
Ammar Mohammed Halhal’s father, Mohammed, who sustained multiple injuries to his back, neck and arms, said:
“The explosion sent me flying all the way to that tree, some 30 meters from the house”.
The following daily report from the Legal Center for Rights and Development also lists this incident 'The warplanes bombed Saber vale in Sehar district and killed 6 civilians from one family' as well as many others that occured on the same day.
On the 12th May 2015, the Saudi led coalition bombed the historical town of Zabid in Hodeidah governorate of Yemen, which is listed by UNESCO as an 'outstanding archaeological and historical site' at risk. The Legal Center for Rights and Development list 60 dead (inc13 women and 8 children) and 155 injured as a result of the bombardment.
Sites damaged or destroyed included public buildings, a public highway, a busy market place, a sweet shop, restaurants, grocery stores and a residential area next to a historical mosque. The strike on the marketplace was documented as a double tap strike where jets returned to strike the rescuers.
This is HRW's report of the incident:
At about 4:15 p.m. on May 12, aircraft dropped at least five bombs on the Houthi-controlled town of Zabid, 96 kilometers (0.6 miles) south of the western port city of Hodaida, killing at least 60 civilians, including 13 women and eight children, and wounding at least 155.
Human Rights Watch examined the site on July 26. Three of the bombs had struck a three-story building in the middle of the Shagia market. The first bomb struck a sweets shop in the building. The second strike, which witnesses said took place about five minutes later, hit a restaurant on the building’s ground floor. The third struck the building’s second floor, causing the structure to collapse. The force of the blasts also destroyed two other buildings housing another restaurant and four grocery stores.
Abdu Ahmed Thayfi, 36, a qat seller at the Shagia market, was injured in the second strike:
"I heard the first strike, and then a few minutes later, the second. I felt as if everything was spinning around me, and then it went black. I woke up and saw the muscle of my left leg torn open. My right leg bone was snapped in half. My brother Muhammad suddenly appeared and wanted to take me to the hospital, but I refused to go, because I knew they would want to amputate my leg."
Thayfi ended up having a bone transplant in his left leg and avoided an amputation.
Abdullah Amin al-Dhabi, 34, a local freelance editor, told Human Rights Watch that after hearing the explosion, he rushed to the market to find his cousin, a qat seller there:
"I saw at least 50 limbs ripped apart from the fragments of the explosion. I also saw other bodies of people I could recognize in front of the Shagia restaurant. There I saw my cousin, next to the bodies of three other people I knew: two of them were kids under the age of 12, another was a woman who used to sell bread by the door of the restaurant. Days later, we heard that neighbors were still finding the hands and heads of other victims on their roofs and their shops. The whole area stank."
Dr. Faisal Awad, chairman of the Zabid Relief Society, which led efforts to identify the dead, told Human Rights Watch that the authorities gathered 66 unidentified body parts from the marketplace.
At the same time as the strikes hit Shagia market, two bombs fell on a lemon grove about 600 meters (656 yards) from the market, and about 50 meters (54 yards) from the entrance to the home of Ahmed Bagesh, the owner of one of the restaurants destroyed in the market attack, killing nine civilians, including two women and four children. Three witnesses said that one of the two bombs did not explode, and that Houthi fighters came soon after the incident and removed the munition.
Bagesh told Human Rights Watch:
"Just as I heard the strikes on the marketplace, there were also two strikes right outside our doorway. My sister’s husband had just left our house—he had been over for a visit—and when I ran out, I found the top half of his body lying on the path by the door. The bottom half had been blown about 10 meters away."
Thabit Hamdain, 55, a qat seller at the Shagia market, told Human Rights Watch that a large public-sector textile factory about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the market had been producing military uniforms for the Houthis, and said he suspected this was the target of the airstrike. The factory was unaffected by the airstrikes and had not been subsequently targeted by the time Human Rights Watch visited Zabid on July 26.
Hamdain noted that the day before the airstrike he recognized three mid-level Houthi commanders eating lunch in one of the restaurants in the market. Bagash, the restaurant owner, said that Houthi fighters often came to the market to buy qat and to eat at the restaurants, but they did not “hang around.” He also said there were no Houthi checkpoints near the market.
The presence of small numbers of Houthi military personnel at the market would not make the entire market a legitimate target for a bombing attack. A factory producing uniforms or others goods for the military would be a valid military target, but the workers inside would not be considered civilians directly participating in the hostilities. The coalition should conduct an investigation to determine whether the attack was unlawfully indiscriminate, whether an attack on the factory during working hours was disproportionate, and whether all feasible precautions had been taken to minimize civilian casualties.
Location: Zabid Date: 5/12/2015
Name
Gender
Age
Killed/Wounded
Ahmed Sulaiman Olian
Male
over 18
Killed
Khalil Abdu Sulaiman al-Mizgagi
Male
35
Killed
Amar Muhammad Amin al-Ahdal
Male
over 18
Killed
Bunian Ahmad Sawlah
Female
over 18
Killed
Abd al-Aziz Salem Omar Orouq
Male
30
Killed
Thabit Ahmad Qaderi
Male
over 18
Killed
Ibrahim Ahmad Hiba Makbuli
Male
over 18
Killed
Abdu Ahmad Dar
Male
over 18
Killed
Abdu Yusif Taher Marzouqi
Male
over 18
Killed
Muhammad Dawud Hakim
Male
over 18
Killed
Muhammad Izzi Abdullah Rukbi
Male
over 18
Killed
Mansour Muhammad Abdullah Mawqri
Male
over 18
Killed
Noaman Hassan Ragab
Male
over 18
Killed
Ahmed Ali Muftah Askri
Male
over 18
Killed
Ahmad Muhammad Awad Makbuli
Male
over 18
Killed
Aiman Muhammad Hassan Rami
Male
over 18
Killed
Gumala Ayash Said Derein (Uzaiti)
Female
over 18
Killed
Hassan Yahya Ismail Murahal
Male
over 18
Killed
Faisal Muharam Salman al-Shamiri
Male
over 18
Killed
Muhammad Anwar Futaini Wisabi
Male
over 18
Killed
Murad Muhammad Adam Haddi
Male
over 18
Killed
Wafa Yahya Salem Mauda Kabah
Female
over 18
Killed
Abdullah Abd al-Aziz Salem Qirshi (Orouk)
Male
3
Killed
Abdullah Abdullah Ridwan
Male
over 18
Killed
Ismail Dawud Sulaiman al-Ahdal
Male
over 18
Killed
Akram Abd al-Hamid al-Qubati
Male
30
Killed
al-Raimi al-Shaibah
Male
over 18
Killed
Bashar Hawash Daoud al-Wisabi
Male
12
Killed
BashIr Ghalib Mahdi al-Shamiri
Male
22
Killed
Bayan Ahmad Sawlah
Female
over 18
Killed
Gawad Muhammad Qaid al-Wisabi
Male
over 18
Killed
Husam Saif al-Qubati
Male
over 18
Killed
Hamoudah Wajih
Female
over 18
Killed
Salah Yahya Muhammad Ali
Male
over 18
Killed
Abd al-Hakim Muhammad Abdullah Ghalib
Male
over 18
Killed
Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Adhim Dabwan
Male
over 18
Killed
Abd al-Latif Yahya Muhammad Qurashi (Orouk)
Male
15
Killed
Fatima Salem Omar Qurashi (Orouk)
Female
30
Killed
Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Salem Qurashi (Orouk)
Male
5
Killed
Murad Faisal Muhram Salman al-Shamiri
Male
over 18
Killed
Nagib Qaid Abdu Ghalib
Male
over 18
Killed
Neima Hassan Omar Kaboub
Female
40
Killed
Haifa Abd al-Aziz Salim Qurashi (Orouk)
Female
8
Killed
Hassan Ali Qasim Marwai
Male
over 18
Killed
Waila Kamela
Female
over 18
Killed
Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Salem
Male
9
Killed
Hayfa Abd al-Aziz Salem
Female
7
Killed
Abd al-Latif Orouq
Male
18
Killed
Abdullah Bin Abdullah al-Shamiri (Bagesh)
Male
40
Killed
Faisal Muharam
Male
45
Killed
Murad Faisal Muharam
Male
12
Killed
Numan Rajab al-Khalil
Male
over 18
Killed
1st daughter of Yahya Ahmad Sawlah
Female
over 18
Killed
2nd daughter of Yahya Ahmad Sawlah
Female
over 18
Killed
Daughter of Yahya Khabah
Female
over 18
Killed
Daughter of Ayash Aziz
Female
over 18
Killed
Ibrahim (Hibah)
Male
over 18
Killed
Salah al-Shamiri
Male
over 18
Killed
Hassan Murahal
Male
35
Killed
Daughter of al-Musyab
Female
18
Killed
Abd al-Majid Muhammad Abd al-Ghani
Male
15
Wounded
Qasim Ali Qasim Akil
Male
15
Wounded
Abdullah Ahmad Abdi
Male
13
Wounded
Abdullah Salim Dawud
Male
16
Wounded
Yahya Awad Yahya Murahal
Male
15
Wounded
Khawla Salim Ali Musaib
Female
10
Wounded
Ahmad Futaini Hawis
Male
10
Wounded
Ismail Abdullah Ismail Salami
Male
15
Wounded
Bassam Muhammad Abdullah Radman
Male
14
Wounded
Zyad Rabia Muafa Galal
Male
12
Wounded
Hisham Said Ahmad Hin
Male
16
Wounded
Muhammad Abdullah Mata
Male
12
Wounded
Muhammad Ammar al-Bahr
Male
13
Wounded
Murtadha Faris Hadadi
Male
9
Wounded
Qasim Ahmad Qasim Mahwat
Male
15
Wounded
Nasim Muhammad Saghyir Talha
Male
18
Wounded
Akram Wahb Allah Hafid
Male
15
Wounded
Haitham Wahb Allah Hafid
Male
16
Wounded
Othman Muhammad Adam Saigh
Male
15
Wounded
Muhammad Ahmad Sulaiman Olian
Male
8
Wounded
Murad Kadaf Sulaiman Ashiq
Male
6
Wounded
Abdullah Abd al-Wahab al-Ahdal
Male
15
Wounded
Adil Hatim Ali Garwan
Male
12
Wounded
Ahmad Abdullah Hilal
Male
43
Wounded
Muhammad Ahmad Numari
Male
22
Wounded
Muhammad Abdu Hamza
Male
19
Wounded
Adel Hatim Ali Garwan
Male
12
Wounded
Ridhwan Abdu Ahmad Mizgagi
Male
over 18
Wounded
Hamada Ismail Futaini Kushi
Male
22
Wounded
Walid Muhammad Ali Omar Ahiaf
Male
35
Wounded
Sami Ahmad Muhammad Sulaiman Quba
Male
30
Wounded
Muhammad Fawzi Khadim al-Okli
Male
25
Wounded
Hassan Omar Ayash
Male
45
Wounded
Isam Ahmad Bahkali
Male
36
Wounded
Abdullah Sulaiman Daoud al-Wisabi
Male
25
Wounded
Asim Abd al-Ghafar Abd al-Wahab al-Maghbashi
Male
27
Wounded
Abd Al-Rahman Muhammad Badr al-Hubaishi al-Shamiri
This is a brief translation of an Almasirah TV report (video below) at that time:
The Saudi-led coalition carried out 4 raids on a popular market in the Zabid, south of Al Hodeidah, which houses a large number of local restaurants, grocery stores, super markets and khat stalls. The bombardment showered the market and nearby houses with shells, turning the streets into pools of blood and human remains. 40 people are reported dead and 56 wounded with countless missing under the rubble.
An old man appears screaming: “They killed my son in the restaurant” and another lying in a stretcher weeping “they bombed us, old people and children, they hit twice, stopped, then they bombed us twice again. Aren’t we Muslim? Why are they killing us?”
WARNING: the media below is graphic and distressing.
It is put here as evidence of war crimes, to call on the UN for an
independent inquiry, and to call on Western governments to honour the
Arms Treaty and to stop the supply of weapons to Saudi Arabia.
This is the report from the Legal Center for Rights and Development, listing names of the dead and injured and some testimonies of some of the witnesses:
