Boeing

Damages

 * In 2018, Boeing was the second-largest arms company in the world, excluding China
 * Boeing's aircraft have been used in Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya
 * Between 2018 and 2021, they applied for 25 export licences for USA, Iraq and Saudi among others
 * Boeing is one of Israel’s major arms suppliers. It has provided F-15 combat aircraft, Apache attack helicopters, and thousands of Guided Bombs. Boeing has 2500 employees in the UK at 65 locations, in both civil and military spheres.
 * Boeing sold Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs to Israel in May 2021 shortly after it had completed its last assault on Gaza
 * In May 2020 Boeing was awarded US government contracts worth more than $2.6bn for the delivery of air-to-surface and anti-ship missiles to Saudi Arabia.
 * In November 2020 Boeing secured a contract worth up to $9.8 billion related to modernisation and support work for Saudi Arabia’s F-15 fleet.
 * Boeing F-15 combat aircraft were delivered to the Saudi Air Force in April 2017 (AI, Outsourcing, p. 9.)
 * The UN has estimated that the war in Yemen had killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021, through direct and indirect causes. Over 150,000 of these deaths were the direct result of the armed conflict, while far more have died due to hunger and disease as a result of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war. Nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed by direct military action, most of them in air strikes  by the Saudi-led Coalition.

Strikes in Yemen in 2015
CN: death, graphic violence

Date of strike: August 28, 2015

Location of strike: Al-Dhihar District, Ibb Governorate

Civilian Casualties:  Five killed (including a child and a woman)

Object(s) struck: Civilian homes in a residential neighborhood

Weapons remnants ID: US-made JDAM GBU-31 bomb (likely)

Weapons manufacturer: Boeing “Khalid’s hand was cut off and I realized that the severed hand we had found earlier was his.”

–Saeed Al-Sufiyani, 33-year-old male, eyewitness On the morning of Friday, August 28, 2015, Saudi/UAE-led Coalition fighter jets dropped three bombs in rapid succession on two civilian homes next to Jabal Rabbi Park in Al-Dhihar District, Ibb Governorate. The attack killed the entire Al-Sanabani family of five. At least one of the bombs used was likely a US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) GBU-31.

33-year-old Saeed Al-Sufiyani, a sculptor, was selling his wares in Jabal Rabbi Park on the morning of the attack. Around 10 or 10:30 a.m., he recalled, he heard the sound of jet airplanes hovering directly over the park. Thinking that the jets would strike the park, Saeed moved towards the nearby parking area. Suddenly, two powerful explosions—less than a second apart—sent him flying into the air. Saeed hit the ground and quickly hid under a car. The air was full of dust and debris, and he could not see anything. He noticed that pieces of glass were strewn everywhere. Later, he would realize that these shards were from the shattered windows of the Al-Sanabani house about fifty meters away from the park. Less than a minute after the first two explosions, Coalition jets dropped a third bomb on Najm Harrash’s home, which was under construction at the time and next door to Mohammed Al-Sanabani’s.

After the third explosion, Saeed—still unable to see because of the thick cloud of dust all around him—began to move towards the mosque at the other end of the park. Upon arriving at the mosque and seeing others walk towards the Al-Sanabani house, Saeed realized that the house had been struck. He watched as the villagers carried 70-year-old Mohammed Al-Sanabani’s dead body out of the destroyed home. Then he joined the search for the rest of the family. The villagers feared more airstrikes and tried to move quickly, but entering the skeleton of the collapsed house and sifting through the rubble was no easy task.

After an hour of searching, Saeed and the other villagers found the remains of Mohammed Al-Sanabani’s teenage nephew and grandson—Abdul Malik and Abdul Ghani—on the second floor. The stairs of the house were destroyed, so the villagers used the backyard to access the first floor, where they discovered a severed hand under the window. It was not until 10 p.m. that night that the villagers recovered the bodies of Mohammed Al-Sanabani’s wife Jamila and 25-year-old son Khalid. Saeed recalled the moment when he saw the dead bodies of the mother and son, locked in an embrace. “It was a very touching scene because they were hugging each other,” he said. Khalid’s hand was cut off, noticed Saeed, before realizing that the severed hand found earlier belonged to Khalid.

The Saudi/UAE-led Coalition attack appears to have been indiscriminate. Researchers and witnesses did not identify any military targets in the area at the time of the attack. Indiscriminate attacks carried out intentionally or recklessly are war crimes. Homes are presumed to be civilian objects. Before conducting an attack, a party must do everything feasible to verify that the persons or objects to be attacked are military objectives and not civilians or civilian objects.

The Coalition’s Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) reviewed the attack.[161] JIAT claimed the Coalition did not attack the house.[162] Witness testimony and physical evidence gathered by Mwatana indicates that Mohammad Al-Sanabani’s house was indeed struck. In other attacks documented by the UN, Human Rights Watch, and others, JIAT has reported that the Coalition did not carry out a strike despite clear physical evidence indicating an airstrike.[163]

Weapons remnants recovered at the scene of the attack that killed the Al-Sanabani family point to the use of a Boeing-manufactured JDAM GBU-31 bomb.[164] One remnant was inscribed with the marking “76301-70P862100-1005.” “76301” is the Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) number for Boeing,[165] and “70P86” is associated with JDAM guidance part numbers.[166] Another remnant featured four securing holes that resemble those of a JDAM GBU-31 tail fin.[167] In 2015 and 2016, the US delivered 3,600 JDAM Guided Bombs to the UAE.[168] Between 2011 and 2012, the US delivered 300 JDAM Guided Bombs to the UAE.[169]

https://mwatana.org/en/day-of-judgment/#_ftn32

Strikes on Gaza, Palestine in 2021
May-August 2021: Source “All these years of hard work, it was a place of living, safety, children and grandchildren, all our history and life, destroyed in front of your eyes ... It’s like someone ripping your heart out and throwing it.”

Jawad Mahdi, 68, an owner of  al-Jalaa tower who lived there with dozens of family members May 11 2021: Source

Ahmad Salah, who lives near the Tiba building, heard an explosion while attending dawn prayers at the nearby al-Sosi mosque. He ran to the building and climbed with other local residents and members of the civil defense to the sixth floor to look for survivors:"We found Um Soboh in the bathroom. She had been washing to get ready for her morning prayer. Half of her body was inside the bathtub. The other half was hanging outside it. There were fragments all over her body. We covered her body with the shower curtain. We looked for a long time for her son, Aboud. I found a blanket and then one of his heels, which was cold. He was under the rubble, lying on his stomach, his head fractured."The attack killed Amira Abdelfatah Soboh, 58, and her son, Abdelrahman Youssef Soboh, 19, who had cerebral palsy.