A/HRC/45/CRP.7 organizations as well as the ICRC, which had visited the site before the airstrikes.96 As a result of the strikes, at least 134 male detainees were killed and 40 were injured. Satellite imagery analysis and other material reviewed by the Group confirm that four buildings, including the detention site, were severely damaged and one building was totally destroyed. Satellite images of the Dhamar Community College compound (in red) before and after the airstrikes, of 30 January 2019 (left picture) and 21 October 2019 (right picture). Detention facility site circled in orange. (Source: Google Earth – Maxar Technologies) 70. The coalition’s Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) investigated the incident, concluding in a statement released on 10 March 2020 that the “[…the facility was] used to store drones and air defence missiles, the observation also showed the presence of military vehicles belonging to Al-Houthi armed militia in the same location”97. JIAT also referred to the detention facility not being on the “no-strike list” and not being marked with an emblem as per article 83 of Geneva Convention IV. The Group of Experts has not been able to independently verify claims regarding the military use of some buildings or the presence of military equipment. However, even if this were the case, the presence of military targets does not negate the coalition’s legal obligation to assess the likely civilian impact of attacks, undertake necessary proportionality analyses and ensure sufficient precautions in attack. The Group also rejects the coalition’s implicit attempts to deflect legal responsibility through reference to the “no-strike” list, noting that the OCHA deconfliction mechanism relates only to static humanitarian locations and humanitarian movements in Yemen. Non-inclusion of any facility on the list cannot be used as a justification for the coalition’s failure to comply with its fundamental international humanitarian law obligations. In addition, the Group notes that the reference to article 83 of the Geneva Convention IV is misconceived, given that this provision only applies in times of international armed conflict, raising concerns as to the adequacy of legal assessments being carried out by JIAT. 71. The Group of Experts also verified that on 24 September 2019, at 8.30 a.m., AlMuzaimir village, Al-Fakhir town, Al-Dhale’e Governorate, over 30 civilians were killed and injured as a result of two airstrikes. The first airstrike hit a house in a farm in this remote rural area, killing at least 10 people – three men, three women, three girls and one boy, and destroying most of the western part of the main building. A second airstrike, 15 to 20 minutes later, set a pick-up truck on fire when the munition landed four metres behind the moving vehicle that was carrying an injured 8-year-old girl who had survived the first strike. At least 20 people, mostly children, were injured from the two strikes, including 11 seriously injured. Some of the injured were taken to a hospital in Ibb governorate. The casualties were mainly from the same family, which is now displaced in Ibb governorate. Witnesses reported that the frontlines located in Qa’atabah were about 15 km away from the area of the airstrike, and 96 See: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/yemen-scenes-devastation-every-single-detainee-eitherkilled-or-injured-attack and: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kA0ObdipkpyVHfl-c7mH2gkLDdpWnAB/view 97 See statement of 10 March 2020 available at: https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2045274 23

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