Amran Cement Factory

On 12 July 2015, at about 12:45 p.m., at least five bombs hit different parts of the cement factory including the heating tower, the mixing area, and the water tank.

The factory management had closed the factory after the coalition naval blockade made it difficult for them to source fuel and raw materials. Just a few days before the attack, they reopened the factory, and on July 11, workers started up the factory’s main production line. Coalition forces attacked the factory the next day, wounding 12 workers, including 7 with more serious injuries. After the attack, the factory gave most of the factory’s 1,500 workers leave, retaining only 350 workers to fulfill security, administrative, IT, and maintenance tasks.

After the attack, the factory gave most of the factory’s 1,500 workers leave, retaining only 350 workers to fulfill security, administrative, IT, and maintenance tasks.

US-supplied CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons with BLU-108 canisters; US-supplied Mk-82 (500-lb general purpose bomb) with JDAM satellite guidance.

Coalition aircraft struck the Amran Cement Factory in three separate attacks on July 12, 2015, February 3, 2016, and February 15, 2016.

Total casualties: 15 dead, 64 injured

Yaman Yoon report

HRW report

Bombing Businesses
Saudi Coalition Airstrikes on Yemen’s Civilian Economic Structures

Sawan, Sanaa

At about 12:30 a.m. on July 12, an airstrike killed 23 people, all from the same family, including seven women and 14 children, from the ages of 2 months to 16 years, in Sanaa’s residential neighborhood of Sawan. The strike also wounded 31 people. The area is populated by the marginalized muhamashee people part of Yemen’s minority group, about 11 percent of the population, that suffers social segregation and discrimination, including in accessing public education and employment.

Human Rights Watch examined the site on July 20. The blast destroyed 10 small, single-story houses and damaged another 50Residents told Human Rights Watch that an airstrike hit the External Medical Clinic, a military medical facility located next to the Military Engineers’ Compound, about 500 meters away, about five minutes after the strike on the homes. Human Rights sought access to the compound, but armed guards denied us entry, saying they would need to get authorization.

The Military Engineers’ Compound was a legitimate military target. The nearby military medical facility was not a valid military target—medical facilities, including those serving military personnel, may not be targeted unless they are being used to commit hostile acts and a warning has been given. The proximity of the hospital to the engineer’s compound unnecessarily placed it at risk of being damaged in an attack on the compound.

HRW report

What Military Target Was in My Brother’s House
Unlawful Coalition Airstrikes in Yemen

Yaman Yoon report for 12 July 2015

The Saudi-led coalition bombed in Dhamar, Hajjah, Aden, Sadah, Sanaa, Amran, Lahj, and Al Jawf.

The coalition hit a Yemeni Military base, the Harath General Hospital, and the Customs building, trucks carrying vegetables and flour, multiple civilian homes and entire neighbourhoods, including the Savan neighbourhood, the Amran Cement Factory, a Health Unit and multiple commercial shops.

The total number of casualties is not declared due to incessant and indiscriminate bombing and lack of resources to establish exact numbers.

However, under the by then given circumstances, it was established that

in Sadah, 8 civilians had died, and 2 were injured as a result of strikes on family homes.

In Sana’a, more than 30 people were injured, including women and children in airstrikes on the residential neighbourhoods in Khanseen Street and al Sawad.

For Sawan’s neighbourhood, see HRW report.

Investigation of Saudi-led Coalition war crimes – Sky News report.

A Sky News investigation has exclusively pieced together the harrowing final few moments before a family was massacred in the village of Washah in northern Yemen.

A total of nine people were killed in the airstrike – all of them women and children.