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. [...] Three bombs launched by the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighter jets on Zeila village in Harad District killed 18 civilians, including 14 children and four women, and wounded nine, including four children and a woman on 27 September 2015. Harad District is located about 100 kilometers to the northwest of Hajja city and it is a border area with Saudi Arabia, making it the target of intense air strikes during the war. In an interview for Mwatana with Ahmed Hassan Zeila, a 27-year-old-worker and an eyewitness, he said that the first bomb landed in an empty area that had no houses and it wounded one person from the village. Zeila continued: “shortly after the fall of the first bomb, the second bomb fell in the middle of the village, in a populated area. The second bomb failed to detonate, otherwise it would have caused the death and injury of many people. After the second bomb was dropped, the residents fled and went outside the village, including many women and children. Then the third bomb fell on those who fled from the village and killed and injured many innocent women and children.” “When the strikes stopped, we rushed the wounded to Abs hospital, as for the rest, they were just pieces. This is an enormous crime against the poor, what have they done to Saudi Arabia for it to bomb them? Most of them were children.” Zeila said the artillery belonging to the Houthi was firing from a farm, about four kilometers away from Zeila village, and that the village is seven kilometers away from the borders of Saudi Arabia. Two people who were wounded in the incident said to Mwatana that they do not have any home or shelter to return to, as the strikes destroyed their homes." ^[+]