At least five people were killed and up to 86 wounded in an alleged Israeli airstrike on an oil station on Al-Sitteen Street in Sana’a during the afternoon of 24 August, 2025.
Musa Abd Rabbuh al-Faqir, Haitham Ghamdan, Khaldoun Haqlan, Walid Jaber al-Asri and Essam Mohammed Mahdi al-Sarihi were all reported killed. It appears some were service workers at the station.
Mohammed Aal-Maqbali, in remembrance of Musa al-Faqir, gave “sincere condolences and sympathy to his father and all his friends,” and included a photograph of Musa, a young man in a grey shirt. Marshal Salem al-Qatish, a cousin, also sent his condolences to Muse’s father on the “loss of [his] beloved son.” Rahman Samawi thought of Musa’s grandfather, sending “sympathy to his grandfather, Dr. Muhammad Abd al-Wali al-Samawi.”
Ali Sadaka posted a condolence essay for Haitham Ghamdan, writing that Haitham’s parents’ “hearts are dripping with grief for you.” In a photograph shared by Mohammed Abdul Wahid Haidara, Haitham is pictured speaking on the phone, clad in a suit.
Abdulmalik Fadel remmebered his cousin Essam, asking that “God’s peace” be upon him. In an attached photograph, Essam, a young man, is seen in a printed scarf. His body was found the following day.
Abdullah al-Asri remembered Walid al-Asri as a “sheikh” and wrote that he was the “the head of the Asr neighborhood, the lower west, the Aviation College neighborhood, the Ma’in District.” In photographs, he is seen in a turban, wearing a checkered suit and Jambiya. Anwar al-Eryani remembered Walid as the “wise man” of the neighbourhood.
Anwar al-Haimi, a colleague at Yemen Mobile, remembered Khaldoun as “one of the calmest and most ethical employees,” and could “almost guarantee that he never upset anyone during his entire career in documentation and sales.” Akram al-Hajj posted a memorial video for Khaldoun Harlan. A photograph shared by Mohammed Abdul Wahid Haidara shows Khaldoun, dressed in a black coat.
Khaled al-Mohammadi alleged that 35 people had been killed in the strike, though this figure was not repeated elsewhere. Other reports, such as one from the Yemeni Ministry of Oil and Minerals reported 35 injuries in a “preliminary toll.” Mohammed Abdul Wahid Haidara spoke of six deaths and “86 wounded.” This casualty toll was corroborated by X/Twitter user @s_a19990922, who reported that seven children and 3threewomen were amongst those wounded. 21 were said to be in critical condition.
Facebook user “Life is what Life is what” spoke of the trials faced by the service station’s owner, who had rented space in the oil company’s station yard. He had previously seen his station destroyed in earlier Saudi strikes. Though he had eventually renovated the station, difficulties over ownership ensued, with “attempts to hand over the service site to a new tenant because his contract had expired.” Though the wider company accepted the grievance claim he filed, the service station was only operational for a few months before the strike. The man’s two sons were running the station at the time of the strike. “ After searching various hospitals, one of his sons was found to have a head injury, while the other has not yet been found.”
Facebook user Bilal al-Qatwi shared a photograph of the station after the strike, which was completely destroyed. Khaled al-Mohammadi lamented that members of Sana’a’s Jewish community had decorated the station with green lights the day prior, only for it to be destroyed.
Anwar Aj-Aljabaly posted a video of the moment of the strike: an enormous plume of smoke and flame rising above the city.
Where sources identified a belligerent, all pointed to the Israeli military.