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Saudi air
raid at Al Eram, Bani Ma’ath, Saber area, Sahar district, Saada province, June
3, 2015, part 5 Saudischer Luftschlag auf Al Eram, Bani Ma’ath,
Saber-Gebiet, Distrikt Sahar Provinz Saada, 3.
Juni 2015, Teil 5 All images
from film
– Alle Bilder aus Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bo2ekoba6k
All images
from film
– Alle Bilder aus Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bo2ekoba6k Report of Amnesty
International – Bericht von
Amnesty International: AL-‘ERAM, BENI MA’ATH, SABR, SAHAR,
SA’DA 3 JUNE When coalition forces airstrikes destroyed a cluster of nine houses in
the eastern side of al-‘Eram, they decimated a
community. The attack, which took place at about 5pm, killed at least 55
residents and injured nine others. Those killed included 35 children and 11
women. In the village, north-west of Sa’da city,
survivors told Amnesty International that several consecutive airstrikes hit
the village and that the strikes had continued while rescue efforts were
underway to look for bodies and survivors in the rubble. Salah Basrallah,
a farmer, lost 21 family members, including his six children and his wife, in
the bombing. He told Amnesty International: “My brother Saleh and his wife Alya, my wife
Amina Mohamed, my mother Fatimat
Hadi, my six children and my brother’s children
were all killed. A total of 21 were killed in my family. At the time of the
strikes, I was at the farm, outside the village. My wife was in the house, my
children were playing outside. I heard the airstrike and I came to find my
house had become a mound of rubble. We did not find some of the dead until
days later. We had to dig in the rubble to look for the bodies while the
planes were still flying overhead after the airstrikes.” Ghaleb Dhaifallah,
a father of four, whose 11-year-old son, was killed in the bombing, described
the attack to Amnesty International: “At the time of the airstrikes,
I was at a friend’s house around 200 meters from here. There were four
strikes. There was a gap of one hour between the second, third and fourth
attack. My eldest son Mu’az was killed, he was 11
years old. He was injured by shrapnel in the head and died on the spot. He
was playing with Sadeq Hamoud’s
four children, my uncle’s two daughters and some other children they all died
on the spot. About 12 of them were not buried in the rubble. The rest were
under the rubble. We had to dig for a long time to find the bodies. I swear
there were no arms depots here or any [Huthi]
leader here. It’s just a place where normal citizens live.” Residents said that it took five days to dig out all
the bodies and that some of the victims were killed when coalition forces
struck the area again while rescue efforts were underway. They said that no Huthi leaders or fighters were residing in the village.
Amnesty International found no evidence of military activities in the
village. Residents showed Amnesty International a disused school on the
eastern edge of the village that had been bombed by coalition forces a month
prior to the strikes on the village, causing no casualties as the school was
not in use. They also showed researchers remnants of MK 80 series bombs,
which they said they found in the rubble. Amnesty International could not establish the
identity of each and every victim of the attack. However, what is clear is
that a large majority of the victims were civilian women and children. Even
if Huthi fighters were among those killed in the
attack, their presence in and of itself would not
make these homes military objectives. An attack targeting the fighters would
need to take into account the presence of so many civilians. Carrying out the
strikes when so many civilians were present would likely make it a
disproportionate attack. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde31/2548/2015/en/ http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/2015/06/3rd-june-2015-saudi-led-coalition.html |
