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Incident on 7 April 2018 [+] Print this page

Location: Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Basic School, Sa'dah Governorate [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Airstrikes Destroying and Damaging Schools [+]

Location


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This incident took place in Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Basic School, Sa'dah Governorate, Yemen [+]

Description


According to Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights and Mwatana for Human Rights: "Between March 26, 2015, when the Saudi/UAE-led coalition announced the start of its military operations in Yemen, and December 31, 2019, Mwatana documented at least 153 coalition airstrikes on or impacting schools and educational facilities in 16 governorates in Yemen, including Saada, Hajjah, the capital secretariat (Sana’a), Sana’a province, Abyan, Al-Bayda, Al Dhale’e ,Al-Hodeidah, Al-Jawf, Al-Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Lahj, Marib, Shabwah, and Taiz. In 140 of these cases, Mwatana researchers and witnesses interviewed by Mwatana did not identify military targets near or in the school that was damaged or destroyed by an airstrike. These Saudi/UAE-led coalition bombings form part of a pattern of attacks on civilian objects which appear to be indiscriminate. In 13 of the documented airstrikes on or impacting schools, Mwatana researchers found the schools were being used by armed groups, or interviewees reported suspicions of military presence in or near the school. In some cases, fighters were using the school facility as a meeting place, for housing, or the kitchen for cooking. In other cases, interviewees reported suspicions that the school was being used as a warehouse by an armed group or of a military presence in or near the school at the time of the attack, for example checkpoints, military vehicles, gunmen, or military mobilizers. In many of these cases, it appears that the damage caused to civilians, including damage or destruction of the school, exceeded any concrete military advantage from attacking the military target identified or suspected. [...] Around midnight, on Saturday, April 7, 2018, Saudi/UAE-led coalition aircraft bombed Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Basic School in Al-Qala (the Castle) area, Razih district, Saada governorate. The attack, conducted with one bomb, resulted in the partial destruction of the school. " [+]

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
18 August 2020 Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights and Mwatana for Human Rights Undermining The Future: Attacks on Yemen’s Schools 25 February 2022