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Incident on May 2015 [+] Print this page

Location: al-Maliya, Sa'adah district, Sa'dah Governorate [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Economy, Public and Commercial Infrastructure Destroyed [+]

Location


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This incident took place in al-Maliya, Sa'adah district, Sa'dah Governorate, Yemen [+]

Description


According to Amnesty International: "Hassan Abdallah Mohammed Hajar, a 65-year-old tailor and father of 16, was walking past Sa’da city’s main financial building (al-Maliya) when a coalition airstrike destroyed the building in early May. He was killed in the blast. His son told Amnesty International: “My father was just unlucky to be passing there when the place was bombed. This is a daily reality for us; the bombs fall from the sky day and night and we don’t know where it is safe. A few days ago a bomb landed in the middle of the roundabout outside our shop. How can we protect our children, ourselves? We can’t so long as the bombardments are so indiscriminate, day and night”. The targeting of shops, markets, workshops and commercial properties in general has been so widespread and so thorough that it is now difficult to assess the full extent of the destruction and to guess how many shops or workshops stood in the place where now only rubble remains. Such comprehensive destruction suggests that the aim is not the removal of specific targets, but rather the infrastructure and economy of the city, which is known to be a Huthi stronghold." [+]

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 [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
07 October 2015 Amnesty International BOMBS FALL FROM THE SKY DAY AND NIGHT': CIVILIANS UNDER FIRE IN NORTHERN YEMEN 21 January 2021