A/HRC/45/CRP.7 that there had been no military activity or fighting in the area for several months. One witness reported that he had heard airplanes flying around two or three days before the strikes. Based on satellite imagery analysis the Group was able to establish that the structure that was damaged stood alone with no other objects in the vicinity. While it is possible to infer that the house, its inhabitants and/or the vehicle were the intended target of the airstrike, there is no information available to the Group to indicate on what basis this targeting occurred. DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 image 4 December 2019 07:37 UTC (© DigitalGlobe Inc.) Analysis conducted by UNITAR-UNOSAT 72. One of the deadliest series of airstrikes of 2020 was conducted by the coalition in the early hours of 15 February 2020 on a village in Al-Hayjah Area, Al-Maslub District, Al-Jawf Governorate, killing 32 people - six men, seven women, eight boys and 11 girls - and injuring 21 – three men, six women, seven girls and five boys. Two houses and one car were also damaged. The airstrikes occurred during a period when the Houthis were making sweeping advances through the Al-Jawf Governorate. The frontline of hostilities between the Houthis and the Government of Yemen forces was approximately 13 km from the site of the airstrikes. The night before the airstrikes, on 14 February 2020, at 11:45 p.m. local time, a Royal Saudi Air Forces Tornado jet crashed, while conducting a close air support mission in support of the Yemen armed forces in Al-Jawf Governorate. The Houthis claimed responsibility for this. The day of the airstrikes, the Saudi Press Agency published a statement announcing that a search and rescue operation had been conducted following the crash of an aircraft, and that this operation had possibly resulted in civilian casualties.98 The crash happened some 750 m north-west of the impact site of the airstrikes. At the time of writing this report, no information had been provided by JIAT in relation to questions posed by the Group regarding this incident, and there has been no public statement concerning the outcome of any investigation by JIAT. There appeared to be no legitimate military objective at the site of the airstrikes. No warning was given prior to the strikes. 98 Available at: https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=ar&newsid=2034939 (Last Accessed 24 August 2020). 24

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