Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Up to seven people were killed and four others were wounded in US airstrikes or drone strikes on Hamzah Mosque in Ja’ar on June 21, 2011. At least two of the people killed were identified as possibly being militants.
@YemNews1 tweeted that four people were killed when Yemeni warplanes bombed the Hamzah mosque in the center of Jaar. @noonArabia reported that “scores of dead and wounded” were left following the bombing and @AdenLang referred to “deaths from armed groups and citizens”, indicating that civilians and militants were killed.
A tweet from @AdenLang identified that the right side of the mosque was damaged from the bombing and @YusraAlA added that Nasser Abdulrab Al-Yafi’s building was partially destroyed by the bombardment.
@YusraAIA later clarified to note that shops near the mosque were burned and damaged and two civilians were killed and four wounded by shrapnel because of the strike, while also tweeting that “7 citizens were killed”, in addition to reporting that two militants and “a number of innocent citizens’ were killed. According to @NoonArabia, “2 citizens instantly killed in bus passing by mosque while bombarded”.
Adlhla Press reported that the strike was believed to be carried out by Americans with two missiles used. Residents of Jaar had told Aden al-Ghad that warplanes hovered at noon before launching missiles upon the mosque.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Pictures of the bombing of the Hamza Mosque in the city of Jaar and the damage to its shops on June 21, 2011. (Image posted by Majdi Naqib via Facebook)
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Pictures of the bombing of the Hamza Mosque in the city of Jaar and the damage to its shops on June 21, 2011. (Image posted by Majdi Naqib via Facebook)
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Photo 1: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 2: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 3: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 4: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 5: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes.(Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 6: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 8: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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Photo 9: Destruction: June 21st- #Abyan: Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by @YusraAlA)
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A man injured in Hamzah Mosque Shelling in Ja'ar by warplanes. (Image posted by Aldhla Press)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib Mosque (مسجد حمزة بن عبدالمطلب) in the town of Jaar (جعار), for which the generic coordinates are: 13.220151, 45.304792. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.