According to Mwatana for Human Rights: "Despite the statements issued by the Spokesman of the Arab Allied Forces –Brigadier General Ahmed Aseeri- that all precautionary measures were taken to avoid civilian casualties and to ensure the safety and security of all Yemenis, a sizable number of the coalition’ aerial attacks did target civilian areas and resulted in killing and injury of civilian, damage of homes, civil institutions and infrastructures. These violations may tantamount to war crimes in accordance with the International Humanitarian Law. [...] An airstrike by the Saudi-led Arab coalition forces on 16 June 2015 killed 11 civilians, including a woman, and wounded six, including two women and a child, when a fighter jet bombed 2 vehicles (Toyota Hilux and a mini bus) in a road that goes through Khabt AlRejaa in Tor Al-Baha district in Lahj. Mwatana interviewed nine eyewitness and relatives of the victims in the incident area and over the phone. According to the testimonies of nine people from the relatives of the victims and witnesses who spoke to Mwatana in the incident area and over the phone, the coalition bombed a Toyota Hilux that had five civilians onboard and killed all of them. Another Toyota car, a Cressida, was damaged. It was traveling on the road with five civilians from one family onboard. One of them, the driver, was killed and three others wounded. A second strike in the same place killed five civilians and wounded three, they were all onboard a minibus. The testimony of the brother of one of the victims of the Hilux car gives a glimpse on how the risks of the war affects even those who decided to withdraw from it. This witness has said that his family fled to a small village after the outbreak of the war, and on 16 June 2015, his brothers and cousins decided to go to the city to buy Ramadan needs. They went in the morning and when they returned, the car that they were in was bombed. The witness gave more details: “exactly at 5:00 p.m., the victims set out driving the car that was loaded with Ramadan’s needs like cream caramel (Pudding), vegetables, honey and dishes. The car is a pickup truck so the trunk is open and visible, and my brothers and cousins were inside and they were on the way back to the house through Khabt Al-Rajaa road. The plane bombed a Steel Factory in that region, my brothers and cousins got scared and so they waved a white flag and started waving their hands to the plane, but the plane bombed them. About half a kilometer away, the plane dropped another bomb on a minibus with a family inside the bus and it killed and wounded many people. Our car was hit despite the fact that our car was licensed and had gone through more than one security check point belonging to the Houthis and the resistance, and no one stopped it and there were no weapons in it.” He added: “our family distanced itself away from the conflicts, we moved to the village and we do not belong to any party in this conflict. Although we are against the policy and actions of one party to the conflict, we chose not to join the other side in the conflict, even though we are soldiers. Some people belonging to the resistance contacted us and told us to come and collect the bodies of the dead. We went there and took the bodies. One of my brothers was a in the military and he was among the soldiers who were terminated in 1994. My cousins and brothers were very young. We buried them all in their hometown. Now their salaries are withheld and it was very little to begin with. We have been afflicted with losing them. They have all died even though they didn’t deserve to die.” In an interview with the cousin of the driver of the Cressida car who died in the bombing, he said: “the air strike caused damage to the car that was carrying my relatives, and led to the death of my cousin, the car driver, and injuring three members of my relatives except their 1-year-old daughter. Some of my relatives contacted me and they told me about the incident, I went to the scene. I got there after Maghreb prayers (After sunset), and I was told that all my relatives died. I fainted when I heard this news. When I woke up, I knew that only one was dead and he was the one driving, and the rest were wounded, they rushed the wounded to Al-Rahida hospital in Ta’iz, and when we knew that it is closed, we had to take them to Aden governorate.” According to witnesses, there were no Houthi (Ansar Allah) fighters in the area as the area was under the Popular Resistance control at the time." ^[+]