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Incident on 18 July 2017 [+] Print this page

Location: Al-Ua‘shira village, Ta'izz Governorate [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Apparently unlawful attack [+]

Location


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This incident took place in Al-Ua‘shira village, Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen [+]

Description


According to Human Rights Watch: “The Saudi-led coalition carried out five apparently unlawful airstrikes in Yemen since June 2017 that killed 26 children among 39 civilian deaths, Human Rights Watch said today. […] At about 7:30 a.m. on July 18, coalition aircraft struck a cluster of homes in Mokha district, Taizz, said Hashem al-Buraiq, 32, who lived in the area with his wife and their five children. The attacks killed at least 14 civilians, including 9 children. Al-Buraiq and his family had been living near the Khalid bin Waleed military camp in Taizz governorate. In April, Houthi-Saleh forces declared areas around the camp a military zone. So al-Buraiq and his family moved to a small area near al-Ua’shira village, about seven kilometers from the military camp, where about a dozen families had built homes. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had recorded the three families as displaced, and the UN refugee agency released a statement noting that a number of the civilians killed in the July 18 attack were internally displaced people. […] OHCHR, which also investigated the attack, said that, “There do not appear to have been any military objectives anywhere in the immediate vicinity of the destroyed house.” OHCHR called on the relevant authorities to investigate the incident. The Yemeni human rights minister, Mohammed Asker, called for a government investigation and described the attack as an “unfortunate incident,” Reuters reported. The coalition has not announced if it will investigate the attack.” [+]

Perpetrator units

Name Other Names Classification
Operation Restoring Hope [+] Arab Coalition
Arab Coalition Forces
Arab Coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen
Gulf Arab coalition
Hope Restoration Operation
Joint Forces
Operation Renewal of Hope
Operation Storm of Resolve
Saudi-led Arab Coalition
Saudi-led Coalition
coalition forces
operations Renewal of Hope
Air Force [+]
Army [+]
Joint Operation [+]
Military [+]
Navy [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
12 September 2017 Human Rights Watch Yemen: Coalition Airstrikes Deadly for Children - UN Should Create International Inquiry, Return Coalition to ‘List of Shame’ 04 April 2022