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19 July 2015: Airstrike in Yareem partially damaging and in some cases destroying 11 residential homes and a two-storey building killing 16 civilians including 9 children, 200 metres away from a military base.

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Residents sifting through the rubble of homes destroyed in an airstrike three days prior in Yareem town. The strike killed at least 16 civilians. © 2015 Ole Solvang/Human Rights Watch

Yareem
At about 2 a.m. on July 19, airstrikes killed at least 16 civilians, including three women and nine children, and wounded at least 16 civilians, in Yareem town, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Sanaa.

The site is located about 200 meters (219 yards) from the entrance to the 55th Rocket Artillery Brigade. The strike had partially damaged, and in some cases completely destroyed, 11 one-story residential homes and a two-story building. Local residents told Human Rights Watch that at about 1:30 a.m., three strikes hit the military base at 10-minute intervals. The fourth strike hit the residential area.

13 civilians killed, including 5 children and 5 women, and 29 civilians injured as a result of a Saudi air raid on a residential neighborhood in the city of Yareem, governorate of Ibb, that destroyed multiple homes (Sunday, July 19, 2015) Courtesy of Yaman Yoon

I remember hearing my neighbour screaming, “Save my children, save me, we are under the rubble!”

A Yemeni surviver
Hana Sa`ad al-Nazhi and her son, who were both injured when an airstrike hit a residential area in Yareem on July 19, 2015, killing at least 16 civilians. © 2015 Ole Solvang/Human Rights Watch

HRW report

On the same day in Sadah, 20 civilians were killed, and 10 injured in airstrikes that targeted civilian homes in the village al Muquanea in the district of Munabeh.

The Omar Ibn Abdelaziz School, a mosque, and a car belonging to a civilian were targeted.

In Hajjah, 2 passers-by were injured in an airstrike. A water tank and a detention centre were targeted.

In Marib, the coalition airstrikes hit a Yemeni Military Base.

In Sana’a, the Imam Hussain School was hit by the coalition airstrikes.

O person was killed and another injured and one still under the rubble, in an initial toll, as a result of a Saudi-led air raid that targeted a market in Hizyaz.

Yaman Yoon report

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