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Incident on 4 July 2015 [+] Print this page

Location: Harad Market, Harad District, Hajjah Governorate [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Violation of international humanitarian law [+]

Location


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This incident took place in Harad Market, Harad District, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen [+]

Description


According to the Panel of Experts on Yemen: "137. The Panel documented that the coalition had conducted air strikes targeting civilians and civilian objects, in violation of international humanitarian law, including camps for internally displaced persons and refugees; civilian gatherings, including weddings; civilian vehicles, including buses; civilian residential areas; medical facilities; schools; mosques; markets, factories and food storage warehouses; and other essential civilian infrastructure, such as the airport in Sana ’a, the port in Hudaydah and domestic transit routes (see annexes 52, 54 and 61). 138. The Panel documented 119 coalition sorties relating to violations of international humanitarian law. Many attacks involved multiple air strikes on multiple civilian objects. Of the 119 sorties, the Panel identified 146 targeted objects(see annex 47). [...] In its investigations in Djibouti, the Panel met with a young third country national male/youth, who described being hit twice during an air strike on a Harad Market, in Harad, during early July 2015. The attack was reported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) as having taken place on 4 July 2015, in Beni Hassan Market and in the evening at the breaking of the fast of Ramadan. MSF stated that 67 civilians were killed as the result of the air strike; MSF had incidentally also treated the young man with whom the Panel spoke. The young man stated of the incident, “[…] I was hit by a strike, hit by sharp metal. It was in Harad, on the border with Saudi Arabia. The thing that hit me came from the air, from the Saudi air force. I was unconscious from the first blast of the strike. I had been walking on the street, I had nothing with me. I got burns from the first blast. There were many people around when it landed and exploded, then in the second explosion, small pieces hit all over and cut me. […] It was a place with houses and shops. The Houthi forces were not there. There was nothing there, no barracks, only normal people. The bomb strikes had been on and off, but suddenly it became more rapid.” The young man sustained severe injuries to his neck and damage to his carotid artery, along with burns and shrapnel wounds to his back, arms and legs. The air strike on Harad Market was only one amongst several such attacks that occurred during early July 2015. On 6 July 2015, 23 civilians were also injured as the result of an air strike that took place in Alfayush market, Lahij governorate.” [+]

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 [+]

Sources

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
26 January 2016 United Nations Letter dated 22 January 2016 from the Panel of Experts on Yemen established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2140 (2014) addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2018/192) 08 October 2019