Civilian Casualties

Civilian Casualties

Incident Code

USYEM250429a

Incident date

April 29, 2025

Location

صرف، بني حشيش, Sarf area, Bani Hushaish district, Sanaa, Yemen

Geolocation

15.429120, 44.267900 Note: The accuracy of this location is to Neighbourhood/area level. Continue to map

Airwars assessment

A man and his son were injured by alleged US airstrikes on the Al-Daqiq/Al-Sabah Sardeef neighbourhood of Sanaa,Yemen on April 29, 2025.

Multiple sources, including @mashhadyemeni and @alymennet, reported that the US carried out two airstrikes on the Bani Hashish district, east of Sanaa Governorate.

Middle East Eye spoke with a survivor of the strikes, Faisal Saghir, who heard a plane hovering nearby at 10:20pm, and after 30 seconds of hovering, a loud nearby explosion. Faisal Saghir and his 10 year old son Sameer Faisal Saghir sustained wounds from the blast when glass around them shattered everywhere, while Faisal’s other son, 12 years old, was left traumatized and crying for hours. According to Faisal, “A strike hit the one-story house of my neighbour, 30 metres away from my flat,” and his neighbors narrowly survived. Faisal mentioned that there was no Houthi presence in the neighborhood.

A Facebook post from Badr Hamoud Al-Arhabi stated that homes had sustained material damage as a result of an airstrike by the “aggression” in the Al-Daqiq neighborhood in the Sarf area of ​​Bani Hashish while @Hhadialmusawi referred to the location of the damaged houses as “the Al-Sabah Sardeef neighborhood”. In a video posted by Badr Hamoud Al-Arhabi, the inside of a bedroom is visible and a large hole can be seen in one of the walls, as well as debris strewn on the bed.

Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to the US military.

The incident occured at 22:20:00 local time.

The victims were named as:

Family members (2)

Faisal Saghir
Adult male injured
Sameer Faisal Saghir
10 years old male injured

Geolocation notes

Reports of the incident mention the area of Sarf (صرف) to the west of Sanaa (صَنْعَاء‎) in the Bani Hushaish district (مديرية بني حشيش). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to find boundaries for the neighbourhood and to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Sarf are: 15.429120, 44.267900.

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike
  • Infrastructure
    Residential
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    Unknown
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Cause of injury / death
    Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Weak
    Single source claim, though sometimes featuring significant information.
  • Suspected belligerent
    US Forces

Sources (9) [ collapse]

Media
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US Forces Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    US Forces
  • US Forces position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike
  • Infrastructure
    Residential
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    Unknown
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Cause of injury / death
    Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Weak
    Single source claim, though sometimes featuring significant information.
  • Suspected belligerent
    US Forces

Sources (9) [ collapse]