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. [...] 17 civilians, including eight women and five children, were killed and 39 others were wounded, including 14 women and nine children, in an airstrike on Abdullah Al-Kibsi house by Saudi-led Arab coalition planes at 1:30 am in Bab Shaa’b neighborhood in Sawaan in one of the areas in Shaob district east of the capital Sana’a on 1 May 2015. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Kibsi, 24 years old, the son of the owner of the house told Mwatana that his father, his 3 sisters and his grandmother all died in the attack that destroyed their house. He recounted how he got back from the market only to find his family-house had been turned into ruins: “one hour before the bomb was dropped I went out with my friend. While we were in the market, my friend received a call from his father telling him that our house had been hit with a bomb. My friend hid the news from me and just said that we must immediately return to the neighborhood because a problem had just happened there. When we arrived, I could not find my house which I lived in and only left an hour ago. Everything disappeared. I was in a complete shock. I could not believe what had just happened. What brought me back to reality was seeing my 18 years old younger brother who suffers from a mental disability in the middle of the floor of what used to be his room. He was laughing and was covered with dust and gun powder. What’s strange is that he was not harmed at all.” Al-Kibsi added: “I heard the rumors that my father was a leader in the Houthi group. My father was only a simple man who doesn’t belong to any political party. He was a member in Yemeni Army and his salary was low. We and the residents of this neighborhood, who most of them collect empty water bottle to resell, are simple people and I can’t think of a reason for them to bomb us.” Six civilians from Al-Shiryah family were killed in this attack as well. Intisar AlShiryah, 25 years old, was inside one of the houses that collapsed due to the attack. After she was dug from the rubble, she awoke from her coma to find out that four of her sisters, her son, and her daughter were among the dead. Six members of her family including two women were injured as well. Intisar told Mwatana what had happened: “We were asleep in our homes. When the electricity came back on around 12:30 a.m. I woke up and awoke my sister Dalal in order to do the laundry because we rarely have electricity. When I heard the first bomb fall in a street near our neighborhood, I was screaming and saying, O God. I was praying to God to protect us because we have not harmed anyone in our lives. My sister, Dalal, was comforting me and telling me not to be scared because God is with us. However, she was the one who died when the second bomb fell on our houses.” “Before the bomb fell, my husband went up to the roof of the house to check where the first explosion was. I went out to the yard because I was scared. My younger sister Hanan accompanied me to dry the cloths. While my husband was coming down the stairs, I heard the sound of the bomb hitting the house. I screamed O God. That’s all I could remember before I fainted." “After I woke up and was able to comprehend, my uncle told me that I was screaming from under the rubble calling for help. Though, I wasn’t aware of what I was doing or saying then. He told me that we stayed under the rubble for 2 hours because the neighbors were afraid that a third bomb might hit so rescue was delayed. I was told that my son Mohamed died in the military hospital, while my sister Ashwaq died in the ambulance, and the rest died under the rubble.” Hefth Allah Al-Jedari, The Head of the Neighborhood (‘Aqel), said that the strike fully demolished 14 houses and caused partial damage to 45 houses because the houses here are build next to each other like slums. According to Al-Jedari, two children, Remas and Mohammed, were killed in the strike. They were displaced from their house and came here to live in their grandfather’s house escaping from the constant bombing near their house in Noqom as it is located at the foot of Noqom Mount where there are weapon depots and a military camp and has been bombed several times. Al-Jedari continues detailing the harm caused by the strikes on civilians by saying “Al-Kibsi family had to rent a house nearby after their house was totally destroyed. Some of the families whose houses were damaged are moving between their homes in the neighborhood and houses of relatives. A woman was paralyzed after being hit by a metal shrapnel in the spine. She now is living in a Mahrs (a very small room used as a guarding post of the nearby vineyards) after she ran away from Al-Thawra Hospital where she was staying because it is near the sites being bombed in Noqom.” He added, “as an ‘Aqel of the neighborhood, I didn’t know what will I do for people other than to cry and pray. The residents of this neighborhood have been greatly affected and suffered a lot. They have helped each other a lot to overcome this ordeal. During Eid, the neighborhood was empty of joy. People were afraid, and the children can no longer play in the alleys. Oh how much we miss them. People in the neighborhood are ordinary people and got a long very well with each other. How can we forget who was killed or wounded from amongst us. The walls and roofs of our homes are connected together. We would walk from one roof to the other without having to even jump. Now all this has become empty."" ^[+]