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. [...] For a fighter warplane to drop a bomb on a densely populated neighborhood inside the city of Ta’iz, which is already crowded, only means exposing a large number of the residents to death. And that’s what really happened in Salah district (east of the city) where one of the bloodiest Saudi-led Arab coalition attacks occurred on 20 August 2015. 50 civilians have been killed, including 23 children and 12 women, and 31 others were injured, including nine children and eight women, by an air strike that targeted a residential neighborhood in Salah district, near Salah Palace. Abdo Mohammed Al-Raimi (39 years old) did not expect that the plane flying over the area would attack with a bomb. But seconds later, he will see “Resurrection” and finds himself injured. “The first strike was next to my house. It was as if it’s the day of Resurrection. I was screaming but to no avail. No one heard me. I tried to get out of the house, and I saw that everywhere around me was full of dirt. I heard the voice of my sister’s husband, shouting and calling on people to help him search for his family. His house along with the house just below it destroyed. I tried to get two of my children out of the house and I was able to get them out to the street. When I went back to the house, the area was hit again and the pressure threw me a great distance away from the house. I was very afraid for my wife and the rest of my children, but - thank God - I was able to reach home and got my wife and my four children out to the street. They were all injured.” Al-Raimi went on saying “The planes bombed the neighborhood six times. All of them hit homes where there are civilians. These strikes caused the destruction of many homes in the area because most of the houses here were built next to each other like slums. I am suffering from cancer in the lymph nodes and a charitable foundation had built my house. Now that my house is destroyed, where would I go? Who would rebuild my house?” A witness told Mwatana that the situation was calm and there were no clashes in the neighborhood before the incident. “We did not feel anything except the tremor of the violent explosion. After that we heard the sound of the plane. We felt great fear and horror, the situation cannot be imagined. We did not know what to do then. Do we get out of the house or stay. We heard afterwards several explosions and the sounds of planes, and we were waiting for death at any moment. The windows in the house broke and the house shook strongly. Then we heard people and women screams and children cries. When the bombing ended, I went out and I saw people trying to rescue the wounded and saw the houses destroyed over the heads of residents. We tried to save whoever we could save. The rest, were under the rubble. Entire families were buried under the rubble. May God never forgive who killed all those innocent people and destroyed our houses. We stayed for days digging out the bodies from under the rubble until the place was filled with bad smell because of our inability to dig out the bodies sooner.” Eman Amin (25 years old), an eyewitness recounted: “about 8:30 p.m., we heard planes flying then the planes bombed the area six times. Each bomb was stronger than the previous one to the point that the entire area caught fire. The pressure was great on neighboring houses because of the explosions. The air strikes were consecutive except the last, which was delayed nearly 20 minutes. All of these air strikes hit the homes of civilian people. The dead and wounded who were bombed in the first five strikes were rushed to Yemen International Hospital. While people were still rescuing the victims, they bombed for the sixth time. So rescuers fled fearing more bombing is coming and so the rescue operation was delayed. The rest of the wounded were rushed in trucks that belong to the Houthis who were in Salah Palace during the incident.”" ^[+]