Al-Qoubari neighbourhood, 50th Street, Sanaa, June 9, 2017
At about 12:30 a.m. on June 9, coalition aircraft struck the home of Tawfeeq al-Sa’adi in Sanaa’s al-Qoubari neighbourhood, killing four civilians, including three children and wounding eight, including three children.
Al-Sa’adi, 36, who was not home at the time, said a neighbour called him to tell him the coalition had hit his house:
I replied to him, ‘Why would they bomb my house? What do we have to bomb?’… I was shocked, and in denial… I walked slowly to the house saying ‘Ya Allah Ya Allah.’ I arrived and saw the gathering of ambulances and police. At that moment, I lost my mind completely.
The attack destroyed al-Sa’adi’s home. His wife, Ghaniya, 32, and 18-month-old daughter, Khadija, were pulled from under the rubble.
Al-Sa’adi took his wife and daughter to five different hospitals, all of which said they could not treat them, either because the hospitals were full and did not have the capacity or because they only provided care to wounded fighters. One hospital finally admitted them. The attack had fractured Khadija’s skull. Ghaniya, who was eight months pregnant, had a fractured leg, a burned back, and a bruised skull. She said: “I lost the baby, he was a boy. We wanted to name him Hassan.” Her husband said they were trying to save money for an operation for Khadija, but “we don’t have enough money to feed ourselves.”
An excerpt from a Human Rights Watch report.
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