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 fighter jets dropped three bombs on a Main road that is used as a market by the residents of Zabeed city (about 80 kilometers south-east of the city of Hodaidah) at 4:30 p.m. in the evening of 12 May 2015, killing 42 civilians, including nine children and four women, and injuring 50 others, including seven children and four women, according to statistics issued by the Public Health and Population Office in Zabeed. The statistics were consistent with testimony of local residents who spoke to Mwatana team, which conducted interviews with 10 people in the place of the incident. Residents in the affected area stated that the first bomb targeted a building where a local crowded restaurant is located in the main street. The second bomb fell on a sweets shop in the same street, before the third bomb drops next to the Qat market but it did not explode. One of the victims of the bombing died while trying to rescue the wounded from the first and second strikes, as told by the victim’s brother Abdul Aziz Makboli (20 years old): “My brother and I were working in a shop selling bread when we heard the first and second explosions. We came out of the shop to see what happened, and people were scared, fleeing in all directions. Whereas my brother rushed to rescue the injured in the attack. I was afraid that he may get hurt, and indeed the third bomb landed in the road but it did not explode, but fragments hit my brother in the head and neck when he was on his way to rescue people and he died on the spot. People had called on him not to go as he may get hurt, but he went to his death.” Another witness said: “I was selling shoes in the street just outside my shop when I felt the tremor from the big explosion. The smoke was filling the area, and I could not see things clearly at first. The second bomb fell on a shop that sell sweets next to where I were, and when I came out of the shop, I saw the building that housed the restaurant and it was destroyed and the sweets shop was also completely destroyed with everyone inside it. People were scattered in the street, one of them without a leg, and others with body parts cut off of their bodies because of the force of the explosion. There were no Houthis at the time of the explosion, just innocent people.” a juice seller who was in the area during the attack indicated that there was a group of soldiers who went to have lunch at the restaurant and then went to buy Qat and sweets, but they left the area 15 minutes or more before the attack. No one was affected by the strike except the civilians. Imad Al-Izzi (28 years old) was one of the wounded in the strike, he told Mwatana that he was talking with his friend next to his vehicle when the first bomb fell. He said that he was afraid that his brother, who owns a shop in that area, might get hurt, so he rushed to see him when the second bomb went off in a shop selling sweets, next to his brother’s shop and he found him wounded by shrapnel. In addition to his injured brother, Al-Izzi saw “burned children and adults, and a building collapsing and the entire Sweets shop gone, and women not covered and getting out of their houses with what they had on out of fear, that I had to give them my keffiyeh as a cover.”" ^[+]