55 residents were killed, and a further nine injured. Among the dead were 35 children and 11 women. They recovered US bomb fragments on site of the airstrikes.
A month after the attack, Amnesty International also travelled to the village. Amnesty later put the number of destroyed houses at 9.





Salah Basrallah, a farmer who said 21 members of his family were killed, among them his wife and six of his children.
“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.”
Another survivor, Ghaleb Dhaifallah, told Amnesty that his 11-year-old son was killed:
“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.”
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