A/HRC/42/CRP.1 killed including 39 boys, 685 and 60 civilians injured.686 On the day of the attack, the children had gathered at 07:00 am at the mosque for a day-trip to visit the martyrs cemetery in al-Ja`malah area, also in Majz district, and then the Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi tomb in al-Sayfi area.687 The children on the bus were under 14 years old. The bus was completely destroyed by the strike, which also partially damaged 11 stores and a vehicle. Several of the children travelling on the bus as well as passers-by were torn apart by the strike such that their bodies could not be identified or recovered by their families to conduct a proper burial. A father of an 11-year-old child who died while on the bus stated he had only received one foot of his son. He told the Group, “I didn't find the body of my son, I was only given his foot, or what could have been his foot to bury something symbolic."688 436. Shortly after the attack, on 11 August, the Saudi Arabia Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva stated that the airstrike had been a “legitimate military action that targeted Houthi leaders who were responsible for recruiting and training young children, and then sending them to battlefields.”689 The letter also indicated the incident had been referred by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the JIAT for investigation. On 1 September 2018, in a press release, the JIAT Legal Advisor, Lt. Gen. Mansour Ahmed al-Mansour, stated 690 that due to a clear delay in preparing the fighter jet, the airstrike was not carried out on the bus as a military objective in an empty and open area to avoid such collateral damage. The coalition stated that it agreed with the JIAT assessment, “expressed regret” for the attack, and said that it would “undertake legal proceedings to hold those who committed mistakes accountable” and “provide redress or assistance to the victims.” Al-Mansour, in his public statement of 1 September 2018, said that the coalition had reviewed information “circulated and confirmed” by Houthi officials that four Houthi commanders, responsible for military training, recruiting or training fighters and producing IEDs, were present on the bus, without providing further information to support these allegations. 691 (d) Airstrike close to a hospital in Kitaf, Sa’dah, 26 March 2019 437. On 26 March 2019, around 09:00 hrs, an airstrike hit in the vicinity of the Kitaf rural hospital, a small hospital supported by Save the Children692 in the rural district of Kitaf and al-Boqe’e, Sa’dah governorate. At the time of the airstrike, civilians from the area, including children,693 were flowing into the hospital, which also ran a Therapeutic Feeding Centre, as well as into the nearby market. Eight individuals (all male) were killed in total, including five children and the hospital guard.694 The strike reportedly injured another nine people, including two children. According to witnesses, bodies were torn in pieces, and a number of wounded had to be transported for emergency treatment to a hospital in Sa’dah city, which is located around 60 kilometres from the site. 438. According to the Group of Experts’ investigations, the airstrike directly impacted a small shop that sold miscellaneous food and non-food items as well as petrol, stored in barrels.695 The shop was within close range, around 10 to 15 metres from the entrance of the hospital,696 and located near a local market that sold qat as well as various goods. While 685 United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General on Children and armed conflict in Yemen, 3 June 2019, S/2019/453 686 OHCHR, “Press briefing notes on Yemen civilian casualties”, 10 August 2019, available at https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23439&LangID=E. 687 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/08/13/yemen-school-bus-strike-elbagir-vpx.cnn. 688 Confidential Sources on File. 689 https://twitter.com/ksamissionun/status/1028444736024141825. 690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7MC71eD-UI&feature=youtu.be. 691 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7MC71eD-UI&feature=youtu.be. 692 The Group of Experts would like to note that his section was prepared without any contribution from Save the Children. Mentions of the NGO were made based on Save the Children’s public statements on the airstrike. 693 Confidential Sources on File. 694 Confidential Sources on File. 695 Confidential Sources on File. 696 Less than 50 meters according to Save the Children but between 10 and 15 meters according to witnesses interviewed by the Group of Experts. 108