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 airstrike by the Saudi-led Arab coalition warplanes on 23 September 2015 led to the killing of three children and the injury of 19 civilians, including 13 children and six women, when warplanes bombed a two-story house in Bani Aziz village in Aflah AlYemen District located 50 kilometers north of Hajja city. Witnesses in the area reported that there are security checkpoints at the entrance of the district’s center and these checkpoints are about five kilometers away from the targeted house, and the nearest military camp site is in Abs District, which is approximately 50 kilometers away. Ibrahim Ahmed Khalofah, (33 years old), a member of the local council in the district, was a witness to the strike and he spoke to Mwatana: “I heard a big explosion early in the morning, it caused the destruction of one of the houses in the village. There were many people inside the house both from the owners or neighbors who came to celebrate Eid (Eid al-Adha). The people rescued the wounded and rescued those who part of the house fell over them. We found three dead children. One of them had wounds in the head and the leg, and another with a smashed head because a rock fell on it, the last child was hit in the head by a fragment form the bomb.” Khalofah commented on the incident saying: “This is a crime on the day of Eid, they didn’t even give people a chance to celebrate it. There are no Houthis nor members of any other armed group in our village, only poor people who do not care about politics at all, and now people are afraid even inside their homes.” Hamoud Zafer an eyewitness who is a government employee in his forties recounted part of what happened: “I was at home on the day of Eid eating breakfast at 7:00 a.m. I could hear the sound of the plane hovering over the sky of the village and then it bombed a two-story house in the village. The Strike led to the destruction of half of the house and damaged some nearby houses, which in turn led to the injury of many of the citizens and the children who were playing near the house. This strike killed three children from the village who were next to the house. I was one of the first rescuers of the wounded and helped save the children who were under the rubble of the house."" ^[+]