Bombing the house of Ahmed Abdulqader Ahmed Aljiraf Western Area – Directorate of Shia’ob – Governorate of Sana’a On June 6, 2018
Incident Details
The Saudi warplanes launched three air strikes at 8:30 pm on Wednesday June 6, 2018. They targeted the house of Ahmed Abdulqader Abdullah Sharifadeen in the neighborhood of Al-Jaraf, a neighborhood of Shia’ob ‘s, Sana’a. The air strikes completely destroyed the house alongside with another house. Furthermore, 8 civilians were wounded, including 3 children and a woman, and caused fear and panic among residents of the neighborhood, shop owners and pedestrians on public roads. The house is located close to Al-Moayed Hospital and the school book press. The three air strikes on the residential neighborhood in which the targeted civilian house was located were heard following the first raid in the capital. It is noted that the air raids carried out by two or more planes of the Saudi aggression against the house violated any basic principles of international humanitarian law as a principle of distinction and proportionality. To protect civilians in spite of the obvious civilian nature of the place where the air attack took place. We saw dozens of civilians fleeing and terrorized by the raids seeking a safe place where they would be safe and physically and mentally.
On the afternoon of the day following the attack, the team of the legal center checked on the neighborhood and the house which was attacked. We were surprised by the destruction caused by the raids in the house and the dozens of houses and nearby residential buildings. We listened to eyewitness accounts and survivors of the raids, telling us the details of the incident and making sure of the civilian nature. There was no military camps or weapons depots, according to the accounts of a close eyewitness to the owner of the targeted house who reported that there was not even a fighter wearing an armed uniform from the family of his uncle, whose house was subjected to raids and their survival from the massacre of genocide wanted by the warplanes to the coalition of counting. He told us that one of his cousins, Osama Ahmed Abdulqader is known to be one of the most prominent cardiologists in Yemen. He only has his medical head, by which he inspects thousands of heart patients and reassures them of their health.
This is not the first time that residents of the Eastern Neighborhood of Al-Jaraf have been subjected to air raids. At 8:45 pm, on Tuesday, October 27, 2015, the Saudi Arabian Air Force launched three air strikes targeting the house of the Judge, Ahmed Abdulqader Sharifadeen, destroying it completely and injuring 3 civilians. 15-year-old Hashim Ahmed Abdulqader was killed. The house of Judge and two other houses were damaged as well as 3 cars. Furthermore, ten neighboring houses were damaged too. 20 meters separated the last incident from the first incident.