#OnThisDay Anyone who wants can dig in the ruins of the house to check if there are weapons or Huthis. Only God knows why they bombed this home.

In the city of Taiz, on 30 June 2015, coalition forces launched two airstrikes against the home of Fahmi Qa’id al-Najdan, a 39-year property dealer, killing him, his wife Khulud, 35, and their two daughters Rinad and Malak, aged two and five. The couple’s two young boys survived because they had gone to play at a relatives’ house nearby.
Fahmi’s brother told Amnesty International;

The house was bombed twice, about 20 minutes apart, at about 1 -1.15pm. The
house was destroyed, leaving no chance of survival for anyone in the house. Some
people say that the Saudis said in the media that there was an arms cache in the
house and others say that 30 Huthis were killed in the house. None of this is true.
They killed a father, a mother and their two little girls. Anyone who wants can dig in
the ruins of the house to check if there are weapons or Huthis. Only God knows why
they bombed this home. May God do justice”.
The house, a large and solid structure, collapsed onto itself. It is not possible to fully assess
what lies under the debris, but no evidence is visible that the house contained a weapon
store or that combatants had been at the house. There were also no remains of weapons in the rubble, no signs of secondary explosions, no information that bodies were recovered other than the four family members, putting into question the justification and legality of the strike.

An excerpt from a 2015 Amnesty International report.

Taiz, Pic by BBC

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