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Incident on 6 August 2020 [+] Print this page

Location: civilian cars on the asphalt road linking the Khab w al-Sha’af district and the Burat al-Enan of al-Jawf governorate [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Air strikes impacting civilians and civilian objects [+]

Location


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This incident took place in civilian cars on the asphalt road linking the Khab w al-Sha’af district and the Burat al-Enan of al-Jawf governorate, Yemen [+]

Description


According to Mwatana for Human Rights: "In 2020, Mwatana documented about 32 Saudi/UAE-led coalition air strikes impacting civilians and civilian objects in eight Yemeni governorates: Amanat al-Asemah, Sana’a, Hajjah, Sadah, al-Hudaydah, al-Bayda, Ma’rib, al-Jawf. At least 104 civilians were killed, including 41 children and 17 women, and at least 81 civilians were injured, including 41 children and 19 women, in these air strikes. These attacks damaged and destroyed protected civilian objects, and hit residential homes and neighborhoods, markets, civilian vehicles, farms schools, and service and commercial facilities. [...] On Thursday, August 6, 2020, at around 09:30 a.m., the Saudi/UAE-led coalition carried out an airstrike and dropped multiple bombs on civilian cars on the asphalt road linking the Khab w al-Sha’af district and the Burat al-Enan of al-Jawf governorate. There was about five to ten minutes between the first three bombs, which fell on two civilian cars carrying civilians on a holiday visit. Meanwhile, at about 10:30 a.m., another three bombs hit another civilian car while it was passing about 300 meters away from the site of the previous two vehicles. As a result of the attack, eight civilians, all children, were killed and 15 civilians were wounded, including eight children and four women. The three civilian vehicles were completely destroyed. Shaa’fa Abdullah (40 years old), a wounded woman and mother of three of the children who died, said: “We were on the way to visit our relatives in Bart district for a holiday visit, and as soon as we heard the sound of the plane, it threw its bombs on us. The bomb had a violent sound and shrapnel came down on us like rain.” Mwatana’s researcher visited the site of the attack and conducted ten interviews with survivors, witnesses, and family members of the victims, in addition to taking photographs of the damage caused by the attack. Mwatana researchers and the witnesses interviewed by Mwatana did not identify any military target in or near the three vehicles before or during 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 [+]

Sources

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
29 September 2021 Mwatana for Human Rights A Tragedy Without Justice: Human Rights in Yemen in 2020 29 March 2022