Civilians bear brunt of violence in Yemen conflict - photo gallery
Civilians in Yemen are caught in the crossfire, facing both Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes and ground attacks by pro and anti-Huthi armed groups.
Eight members of the Sayed family, six of them children, were killed and seven others, including two children, were injured when coalition forces bombed their home in Dar Saber village, outside Ta’iz city on 26 May at 5am.
Huthi/Saleh loyalists fighters launched grad rockets and hit Bureiqa oil refinery in Aden end on 27/28 June
A mortar struck Ahmed Salem Hasan’s house at 2am on 7 July, killing 11-year-old Ayat Ahmad Hassan, her 18-year-old sister A’ayad and their aunt Amna Hassan Salem, and injuring seven relatives, most of them women and children.
During the fighting in the city of Ta’iz, al-Thawra Hospital (along with al-Rawdha, al-Jamhouri) was under the control of anti-Huthi PRC armed groups (Pro Hadi forces).
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
Fighters from both sides have used battlefield weapons and munitions - such as imprecise Grad-type rocket artillery and mortars, which cannot be accurately aimed at specific targets
Eight members of the Sayed family, six of them children, were killed and seven others, including two children, were injured when coalition forces bombed their home in Dar Saber village, outside Ta’iz city on 26 May at 5am
Asir Omar Abdullah Saleh, 5.5 years, was at home with his mother in Block 9 in Basateen (in Dar Saad in Aden) when a shrapnel from mortar that fell in the courtyard injured him.
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