No one was injured or killed in the latter attack. The home was struck again five days later while family members were at the house inspecting the site. This attack highlights, yet again, the dire need for a comprehensive embargo on all weapons that could be used by any of the warring parties in Yemen Rasha MohamedĪ second air strike occurred in the same spot approximately 15 minutes after the first, indicating that the pilot wanted to guarantee the destruction of the al-Kindi family’s house. Witnesses told Amnesty International there were no fighters or military objectives in the vicinity of the house at the time of the attack. However, that stopped operating more than two years ago after being struck by several coalition air strikes in 20. The closest possible military target at the time of the attack was a Huthi Operations Room on Hayel Saeed Farm – approximately 1km away. I was next to the house when the second bomb fell… and I got down onto the ground.” I heard the plane hovering and I saw the bomb as it dropped towards the house.

One eyewitness told Amnesty International: “I was around three minutes’ walk away working at a neighbouring farm. They were wrapped up and taken away.” Analysis of satellite imagery The flesh of this person was mixed with that person. One family member told Amnesty International: “We buried them the same day because they had turned into severed limbs. The organization’s arms expert analysed photos of the remnants of the weapon dug out from the site of the strike by family members and was able to use product data stencilled on the guidance fin to positively identify the bomb as a US-made 500 pound GBU-12 Paveway II.Īmong the six civilians killed in the attack, which took place in Warzan village in the directorate of Khadir, were a 52-year-old woman and three children, aged 12, nine and six. The organization also analysed satellite imagery and photo and video materials of the aftermath of the attack to corroborate the witness reports.ĭespite the slew of evidence that the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition has time and again committed serious violations of international law, including possible war crimes, the USA and other arms-supplying countries such as the UK and France remain unmoved by the pain and chaos their arms are wreaking on the civilian population Rasha Mohamed “Despite the slew of evidence that the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition has time and again committed serious violations of international law, including possible war crimes, the USA and other arms-supplying countries such as the UK and France remain unmoved by the pain and chaos their arms are wreaking on the civilian population.”Īmnesty International spoke to two family members and two local residents, including two witnesses to the attack. “It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the USA continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen’s devastating conflict,” said Rasha Mohamed, Amnesty International’s Yemen Researcher. US-made bomb used in deadly air strike on civilians The laser-guided bomb, manufactured by US company Raytheon and used in the attack, is the latest evidence that the USA is supplying weapons that are being used by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition in attacks amounting to serious violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen. It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the USA continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen’s devastating conflict Rasha Mohamed, Amnesty International’s Yemen Researcher Press Release SeptemYemen: US-made bomb used in deadly air strike on civiliansĪ precision-guided munition made in the USA was used in a Saudi and Emirati-led air strike carried out on 28 June of this year, on a residential home in Ta’iz governorate, Yemen, killing six civilians – including three children, Amnesty International said today.

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