Aftermath

“God save us from this crisis. There is no comfort except from God. He will be the one to judge,” says Raja Mohsen, as she holds a Quran in her destroyed kitchen. Her home was damaged in the airstrike, and two children sitting in her living room were killed when the pressure from the bomb broke their windows.

A Yemeni man from Al Joob lifts the thobe, a traditional robe, to show a shrapnel wound on a boy from the village. The injured youth was one of several boys selling produce to passing cars when the Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit, spraying rocks and shrapnel into their bodies. “There are still pieces of shrapnel near his lungs,” he says. “But we have to wait until the doctor comes later in the week.” Amran Hospital, one of only two in the entire governorate, received 70 casualties from the two markets strikes and another on a checkpoint. Hospitals are already overflowing with general illness and malnutrition cases from dirty water and lack of electricity.

The wife of Abdul Latif mourns in her home with family after her husband was killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike. Abdul Latif, a 35 year old farmer and father of seven, was selling fruit and vegetables on the side of the road when the airstrike hit the side of the road. It killed Abdul Latif and nine young boys from Al Joob.

Yemeni men visit the new cemetery in Al Joob, dug specifically to accommodate the 30 men, women and children who were killed between two strikes on a public market and along a roadside. Some had already been buried, but other graves lay empty, waiting for the bodies to come from the morgue in Amran or Sanaa. More hopeful cases were sent to the better equipped hospitals in Sanaa, but most died on the way there.

Yemeni children stand outside the Huwaiti home, as the mother of Mohammad and Ahmad mourns. She lost both of her sons, ages 17 and 14, who were selling produce on the side of the road, to a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Al Joob village.

Hani al Ahnooni, 12 years old, lies injured in a hospital in Amran, Yemen on July 7, 2015. He was selling tomatoes on the side of the road in Al Joob when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit, killing nine children. His right arm was shattered and shrapnel remains in his head and left hand.

A Yemeni boy stands in the main door to the old city of Amran, which has been spared airstrikes. The old city of Saada, in the north, has been almost completely destroyed. In Sanaa as well, a Saudi air strike destroyed a section of the old city. Most of the strikes in Amran governorate have been outside the provincial capital, hitting markets and homes in local villages.