A/HRC/42/CRP.1 frontlines. Shelling also caused destruction and damage to homes, shops, schools, government buildings435 and other civilian objects, including hospitals.In many instances, such attacks disrupted the provision of crucial services to the population. 436 Below are the details of incidents considered emblematic of this situation investigated by the Group of Experts that occurred during the first year of the conflict in Ta’izz. Houthi shelling and snipers Rocket Attacks on Ta’izz city, 21 October 2015 308. In Ta’izz city on 21 October 2015, at least 11 civilians were killed (including two children and a woman) and 29 more were injured (including four children and a woman) when Houthi-Saleh fighters fired 10-15 rockets into residential and commercial areas, including the central market at approximately 16:30 hrs. A journalist described having heard consecutive explosions near his home and that he visited the locations where the rockets fell, including 26 September street437 and Tahrir street.438 One witness described how he went to the roof of his house, located in al-Mesbah neighbourhood, after hearing the explosions and saw the impact of rockets on the central market and 26 September Street, which were crowded with residents. The street contains many shops, including a store, selling baby clothes and other items, that was directly hit.439 One rocket also landed nearly a kilometre away from the Hayel School for Girls, which was being used as a military base for Abu al-Abbas battalions since the beginning of the conflict in March 2015.440 Doctors at al-Thawrah hospital received over 50 patients that day and treated injuries to the chest, abdomen and head.441 Witnesses reported seeing approximately 10-15 rockets, which they believed had been fired from locations including the Sofitel hill and 60th street, both of which were known at the time as Houthi positions.442 The areas hit during this attack were under the control of the Resistance at the time. 309. Houthi-Saleh fighters were known to possess the type of rockets used in this attack (BM-21), and the positions that they held in the city were well within the range of the locations where these rockets impacted. Moreover, the rockets landed in a part of the city under the control of the Yemeni armed forces and affiliated groups. The Group of Experts therefore found reasonable grounds to believe that Houthi-Saleh fighters caused the death and injury of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in this case through the use of indirect-fire weapons with wide area impact in a civilian populated area. Mortar Attack on al-Kawthar Neighbourhood, 27 January 2016 310. On 27 January 2016, at approximately 17:30 hrs, a mortar struck al-Huraish street443 in the Kawthar neighbourhood, in the north of Ta’izz city, killing four people (one man and three boys) and injuring 17 others (12 men and five boys) while they were playing volleyball. A witness said it happened next to his house, which is close to the al-Kawthar mosque, “the guys were playing volleyball and all of a sudden a shell fell and it was a miserable situation.”444 Neighbours had been playing volleyball daily since the start of the war, according to another local resident who witnessed what happened and was injured. Each day the residents came together between 16:00 and 18:00 hrs to play but “we stopped directly after what happened, we had been playing since the start of the war as we didn’t 435 Confidential Sources on File. For example, services were disrupted at hospitals (see humanitarian section), and schools (see child protection section) as a result of shelling. 437 Located at 13.574276, 44.009821 and 13.573866, 44.013612. 438 Located at 13.577855, 44.013218. 439 Confidential Sources on File. 440 Confidential Sources on File. 441 Confidential Sources on File. 442 Confidential Sources on File. 443 Located at 13.581469, 44.019166 within fifty metres of the impact site. 444 Confidential Sources on File. 436 72