On 9 July coalition forces killed 10 members of the Faraa family, including four children and five women, and injured 10 others when they bombed the Mus’ab ben Omar school where a dozen families displaced by the conflict were sheltering in Tahrur village, north of Aden in Lahj governorate on 9 July at about 1pm.

A fin from a U.S.-designed MK80 general-purpose bomb, similar to those found at many other locations of coalition strikes, was recovered at the site of the attack.

The displaced people who were sheltering in the school are members of the “muhammashin” (marginalised) community – Yemeni citizens of African origins, one of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable communities in the country. Neighbours told Amnesty International that the last time they saw any Huthis was four days before the strike, when two Huthis passed by the school but did not stop. They said that before the airstrike Huthis used to stay in a school and nearby building in another part of the village, less than a kilometre away. However, that location was never targeted by coalition forces and neighbours said that Huthi/Saleh loyalists armed groups stopped gathering there after the strike on the Mus’ab Ben Omar school, which killed members of the Faraa family.
Amnesty International found no evidence indicating that the Mus’ab Ben Om ar school was being used for military purposes. All that was visible in the ruins of the school were remains of the meagre possession of the displaced families who had been sheltering there – blankets, cooking pots, children’s clothes – as well as a fin of a bomb from the Mark 80 series US￾designed general purpose bombs, similar to those found at many other locations of coalition strikes.

Amnesty report

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YAMAN YOON report

Another report by Yaman Yoon covers airstrikes carried out in Sana’a, Hajjah, Lahj, Mareb, Sadah, Aden, Ibb, and Dhamar.

In Dhamar, the coalition bombed an education complex, killing one person and injuring 27 in the district of al Manar.