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. [...] Six civilians including three children and a woman were killed and seven civilians including a woman were wounded, in an airstrike by the Saudi-led Arab coalition on the 5th of August 2015 that targeted a residential house in the vicinity of Al-Qimmah hall in Haoth Al-Ashraf area, which is located within Cairo District (east of the city of Ta’iz), where heavy fighting between Houthi fighters and popular resistance militants took place. The house that was bombed consists of two floors, each floor contains two apartments. Three families live in the house according to one of the relatives of the victims. A witness whose uncle was killed in the strike recounted part of a terrifying experience he went through: “I was sitting next to the house with members of the Popular Resistance - though I am not one of them - and about three in the morning, when I entered my house, I heard the sound of a plane hovering over the area. I had started falling asleep when the plane hit just above our house. The situation was very terrifying and I could not grasp what happen then. I ran out of the house hysterically through one of the destroyed walls. I could not believe that I am alive. I saw the house after I got out and it was totally destroyed. We started rescuing the victims, and when we heard the sound of the plane again, we fled fearing that the area would be bombed again. After that we spent 3 hours looking under the rubble for the bodies. We dug out six bodies. What is the crime of these innocent lives? We were asleep and safe in our homes until the coalition forces came to bomb us without first verifying the target.” Another eyewitness said that the coalition forces bombed the house next to his home at three in the morning when he was about to go to sleep, but he fled from his house fearing that it would collapse on him after the house stones were blown to the inside and were flying due to the intensity of the explosion. He said: “I saw my house and the neighbor’s houses and they were destroyed, either totally or partially. People were crying out loudly which demonstrates the extreme horror they felt because of the bombing. We hurried to rescue the wounded and dig out the bodies. We were able to dig out six bodies from under the rubble of the house that was bombed. This Area is under the control of the popular resistance fighters. There are no Houthis here. The bombing was on civilians.”" ^[+]