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. [...] In a matter of seconds, a wedding party turned into a funeral in a remote village in Thobab district, about 123 kilometers north-west of Ta’iz governorate capital. 26 civilians were killed, including 13 children and 12 women, when the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighter jets bombed a wedding camp in the village of Waheja on 28 September 2015 with two bombs. The first bomb fell near the men’s camp while the second bomb hit the women’s tent between ten and ten thirty in the morning. In his house next to the women’s camp, the father of the groom, Mohammed Ali Bosaybis, 50 years old, was working on preparations for the wedding when the first bomb exploded. Bosaybis is a relative of eight of the victims who died in the attack (The mother, the sister, the wife of the brother, two nephews and three nieces). He narrated to Mwatana part of what happened: “About 10:00 a.m., I heard the bomb in the village. When I came out of my house, I saw that it was near the men’s tent. Dust filled the air then. I was calling on the women inside the women’s tent to get out quickly as the tent was full of them. I tried with some men to dismantle the women’s tent so the planes would see what’s inside and do not bomb it as they did with the men’s tent. We opened the tent canvas from the western side. After nearly seven minutes, the plane hit the women’s tent from the eastern side. Pressure from the explosion threw one of the men who were dismantling the tent to a far-off distance. The rest of us fled in fear of another air strike. We stayed away for half an hour and then we went back to see what happened. We could not identify those who were there. All what we found were pieces and parts like legs and arms. We did not know who most of these body parts belong to. We found remains as far as 100 meters away or more. We are still finding remains of the bodies until now.” Bosaybis continues to say: “This is a criminal act. I still do not know where my family is until now. My children fled to another village after the bombing and I haven’t seen them until now. One of my brothers had work outside the village when the bombing occurred, and when he returned to it he did not find his children because there was nothing left of them. My brother was not able to stay in the village for a longer time, and left without finding his children.” Another witness, Osama Al-Raei (26 years old), said that he was in his house when the first strike took place around ten in the morning. Al-Raei recounted to Mwatana some details of the incident: “I heard a powerful explosion that shook the entire place. I got scared then and did not know what happened. When I came out of the house I saw thick dust, and there were trees burning, and one can hear the sound of the plane very clearly. I went into the men’s tent, and I saw that the tent roof had fallen on Ali Aseili (16 years old), and I saw Riyadh Awadhi, 25 years old, who was still breathing, but I could not do anything to him because of my fear of another strike. Only 10 minutes passed and the other bomb dropped but this time it was on the women’s tent. When I went out to see what happened, I saw dust covering the village, and I heard someone screaming next to the men’s tent calling on people to save his mother Hawi Darwish, 55 years old.” Al-Raei added: “I went with someone else to him and saw his mother Hawi Darwish cut in half, so we covered her with a blanket. The mother was hit on the first strike, which occurred outside the village next to the men’s tent as fragments and shrapnel from the bomb reached her house. If the bomb was dropped in the middle of the village, it would have wiped it out with everyone in it. When I went to the women’s tent, I saw the remains of women and children in front of my eyes. The remains were scattered over a large distance. I could not tolerate staying longer in that place and I left right away.” Attrosh Ali Saeed (54 years old), the father of a child killed in the incident, said to Mwatana that he and his brother were among the people who tried to dismantle the women’s tent after the first strike. He said that a fighter jet hit the women’s camp on the other side a few minutes later. Attrosh continued talking: “The pressure of the explosion threw me a large distance away because I was dismantling the tent when the bomb fell on it. Many women died and the number would have been much greater had it not been that most of them had fled from the tent after the first bomb. Half an hour after the second strike, we went back to the women’s tent and we only found body parts. We could not identify the bodies. Some residents of the village are still looking for their families and they do not know if they had died in the incident or fled outside the village. The strike has left nothing but meat chunks. If the first strike did not happen next to the men’s tent causing women to flee, the crime would have been much bigger. For those who did it, this is an unforgivable crime.” Attrosh mentioned that the planes continued flying over the village sky until nightfall, causing more horror to the residents of the village. ^[+]