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One civilian was injured by an alleged US bombing of the Sarf area in Bani Hashish District, north of Sanaa, Yemen on March 28, 2025.
A post from @alkhabar_ye, along with other local sources, reported that one “citizen” was injured by a US “attack” on the Sarf area in Bani Hashish District. There were no additional details found about the identity of the citizen or their condition.
A video posted by @TvAlmasirah reportedly shows the damage cause by the US bombing to a citizen’s house. In the video, part of the wall and ceiling of a gray brick building is collapsed and from an inside view of the home, debris are strewn on the floor, the window and walls in a bathroom are blown out, and household items can be seen among the rubble on the floor. A man is also interviewed later in the video, and adds that the strikes occurred at 1am local time. He also states that nobody was home when the first building which was hit by the airstrikes, and that homes belonging to the Al Qael family and the Al Taher family were also hit.
Where sources attribute responsibility for the strike, all sources attributed the strike to the US.
This incident was updated on May 16, 2026, to include imagery and assessment from the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP). The OSMP identified images of munitions connected to this incident as a GBU-53/B Storm Breaker, a 250 pound air-delivered bomb.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the area of Sarf (منطقة الصرف الصحي) in the Bani Hashish district (مديرية بني حشيش). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to find boundaries for the district and to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Sarf are: 15.433056, 44.264444.
Munition
Images of a munition remnant found at the location of this incident were shared by the Houthis (AnsarAllah) and have been identified as a GBU-53/B StormBreaker by munitions experts at the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP), a joint project between Airwars and the Armament Research Services (ARES), and can be viewed here (OSMP1255, OSMP1257).
