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. [...] The Saudi-led Arab coalition planes bombed residential houses in Al-Dahi Valley area (west of Ta’iz city) at 6 am in the morning on 11 May 2015, killing 13 civilians, including eight children and three women, and injuring six others, three women and three children. The Traffic Police Department building, which is the nearest location where forces of Saleh and Al-Houthi are stationed, is located to the east of the targeted residential area by about 500-700 meters. According to eyewitnesses, there were no militants in the targeted neighborhood either during the bombing or in earlier days. Witnesses said that coalition warplanes bombed several sites where Saleh›s and the Houthi’s forces were stationed that morning before they bombed the house of Abdulqawi Al-Jabri, which killed 10 members of his family along with three people from neighboring houses. Yassin Abdulqawi Al-Jabri (24 years old) was sleeping with one of his university friends in a room above the two-story house in Al-Sabbar neighborhood which is also called Al-Hayakel neighborhood when a bomb hit the house. Yassin survived and 10 of his relatives fell victims in the attack. On the incident, he said to Mwatana: “When the explosion occurred, my brother died immediately, and my sister was blown 50-100 meters outside the house which caused her to suffer serious injuries, until now she is still suffering from the enormity of the shock. My friend and I did not know what was happening around us, for more than an hour we were like we are in a coma and we almost died from the inhalation of smoke. Ten people from my family died. No one survived from our family except me and my sister. Our neighbor who her house is only 20 meters away from our house also died. They said that she died as a result of shrapnel in her stomach. While she was sleeping on her bed. A small child also died, his family lived near us. And a teacher died, a large stone had fallen over his head from the blast, he lives close to our house as well.” Yassin denied the occurrence of armed confrontations or the presence of militants in the neighborhood or neighboring areas, saying “the majority of war victims are civilians, because the militants know how to prepare and protect themselves in time of war.” Muammar Al-Marwani, a lawyer, and a relative to Al-Jabri family, said to Mwatana that the force of the blast caused damages to five or six neighboring houses. And that he saw the bodies of the victims scattered into pieces, adding that digging out the bodies lasted for three days due to lack of fuel and the use of simple tools by the people. He added: “During the aerial bombardment there were no clashes between the parties. The coalition planes had already bombed several locations close to the house, and they were: Ta’iz Traffic Department building, and the building of Criminal Investigations Department and the Technical Institute building, and Al-Sunnah Mosque behind 26 September School.” Ammar Ahmed (21 years old), another witness whose father was killed in the attack, told Mwatana about the circumstances of the incident: “Shrapnel and fragments scattere everywhere in the neighborhood, our neighbor died while she was sleeping in her home because of the shrapnel. Her house is located in front of our house. My father was passing in the neighborhood, carrying breakfast as he was returning to us. When the strike took place I ran to the street although I was injured by shrapnel, and I found my father with his right hand separated from his body and he was severely bleeding, he was still alive. A Rock fell on his head because of the explosion. When the neighbors came to rescue the wounded, another bomb fell in the adjacent neighborhood, and so people fled and left us to survive on our own. I drove my dad in the car trying to rescue him but I did not find a place to receive him as hospitals were still closed. I was forced to take him to a small health center in a remote location, which was a clinic for the care of pregnant women, but he took his last breath there and was pronounced dead after one hour from his injury.” Ammar went on saying: “our neighborhood was quiet, there was no presence of militants from Al-Houthi or The Resistance. We did not have or use even fireworks. Now homes are destroyed and people killed. After my father was killed, we are left without a breadwinner. My father had a large family of nine people, and I do not work yet. My family fled to a remote area after a large part of our house was destroyed, and now we live with relatives.”" ^[+]