Multiple strikes on a farm killed three children, two pregnant women, and injured two children and a man. Remnants of US-made bombs were recovered

at the site of the attacks.

BENI MA’ATH, SABR, SAHAR, SA’DA, 8 JUNE
On the morning of 8 June, a coalition forces airstrike on a farm in Beni Ma’ath, a rural area north-west of Sa’da city, killed three children and two pregnant women, as well as injuring two children and a 61-year-old man from the Halhal family.
The strikes created a 10-meter wide crater, where Amnesty International found remnants of a US-designed Mark (MK) 80 series general purpose bomb.

Survivors told Amnesty
International that three consecutive airstrikes hit the farm, sending some of the 22 family
members flying dozens of meters away. They said that they did not find the body of one of
the children killed in the strike until four days later. Amnesty International found no evidence
of military activities around the house, where the family’s meagre possessions were strewn
dozens of meters from the ruins of the house.
Ammar Mohammed Halhal, a 28-year-old farmer and father of four who survived the attack,
but lost his pregnant wife and his daughter, told Amnesty International:
“I don’t know why they bombed us. We are just simple farmers, we grow qat and
vegetables. We are poor and spend our time working to eke a living for our families.
They killed us for no reason. My wife, Nabila Ali and my little girl Fatime, my brothers
Saqar and Abdullatif, who are both two years old, and my stepmother Safia Ghaleb were
all killed. My wife and my stepmother were both in the last month of their pregnancies.
My father and my little brother and sister, both three years old, were injured. The bombs
were so powerful that we were blown far from the house. It took four days to find the
body of little Abdullatif; he had been blown more than 50 meters away”.44
Ammar Mohammed Halhal’s father, Mohammed, who sustained multiple injuries to his back,
neck and arms, said: “The explosion sent me flying all the way to that tree, some 30 meters
from the house”.
Amnesty report