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. [...] An air strike by the Saudi-led Arab coalition killed 18 civilians, including six children, and wounded at least 16 others, including six children and three women, on 27 May 2015 when a fighter jet bombed a petrol station in Al-Rahidah area in Dumnat Khadder District, 40 kilometers to the south of Ta’iz city. Aside from being surrounded by shops and a mosque, the station is located in a meeting point for people traveling to Al Qabbaytah District. Mwatana researchers conducted interviews with 11 people from the eyewitnesses and the wounded in Al-Rahidah. According to eyewitnesses, there were no militants either from Houthis or Popular Resistance in the station, except that the Houthis had used the station for a brief period and vacated it about 20 to 30 days before it was bombed. The station was closed when it was bombed. One of the people wounded in the incident told Mwatana that he was near the station when a plane bombed a site in Al-Qarn Mount in a neighboring area. Then two minutes later the station was bombed. The witness added: “The explosion was so violent that the fragments were scattered to 300 meters from the place of the bombing. I arrived at the place and saw a horrible scene, bodies were scattered all over the place, and most of the shops in front of the station were burned. Most of those who died in the incident were from the people working in those stores, and the children who sell ice, and also those who were next to the station watching the bombing on Al-Qarn Mount. We started to rescue the injured quickly and we took them to Dr. Firas Al-Shaibani clinic in the middle of Al-Rahidh area for first aid, because Al-Rahidh Hospital was closed and there was no other hospital in the area. After administering first aid to the wounded, they were taken to Yemen International Hospital in Al-Hawban area east of Ta’iz city.” He added: “There were no soldiers or Houthis in the station when it was bombed. The bombing destroyed the station and the mosque next to it. In addition to some of the neighboring houses. The area has become empty after the incident because most people have fled to faraway villages. I still cannot comprehend anything from what happened.” Mohammed Hayel (47 years old), the owner of a grocery store in front of the station and one of the people injured in the incident, recounted that he was inside his store during the first strike on Al-Qarn Mount. He came out of the store to watch the bombing and after a minute or two later, Abdul Wahab station was bombed. Mohammad went on talking about the circumstances of his injury: “It was Kindness of God that I was standing away from my store. Nevertheless, the air pressure blew me to the back of the building. I heard a voice like thunder, whereas the smoke has filled the place, it was hard to see through all the smoke. I was covered with dust and small stones, I tried to pull myself on the ground little by little because of my injury until I reached the farm fields which were close to me. I managed to reach a small house, and there were other injured people as well and they were falling on the floor beside me. When I managed to stand up on my feet, I went directly to my store. I saw a tragedy there, especially after the smoke started clearing. Inside the grocery store were body parts and legs and hands scattered everywhere. Outside the grocery store, I saw the bodies and body parts of people, and dead children. The whole street was full of dead bodies. There were nearly four children selling ice next to the station. They came from Amlah village, which is behind the station. People wished that they could find something of their bodies other than the charred pieces so they can bury them in the graves, but unfortunately, nothing of them was left. We have compiled the remains of people into one place buried it.”" ^[+]