At around 8:00 p.m. on April 27, 2025, at least 11 civilians, including eight children and two women, were killed and four others, including three children, were injured by alleged U.S. airstrikes on four homes in the Thaqban area in the Bani al-Harith District of Sanaa, Yemen.
@TvAlmasirah provided an initial toll of eight citizens killed, including women and children, and others injured. The Ministry of Health and Environment – Yemen posted on Facebook that 12 citizens, including women and children, were killed, and four others were injured.
A Facebook post by Ayub Idris identified Ali Yahya Salah Masoud and his “entire family” – his wife, sons, and daughters – as among those killed in the American bombing of the Thaqban area. The post included a photo collage of images of a man, two young girls dressed in red, and two young boys dressed in plaid suit jackets. A post from Yahya Al Ataki named the rest of the family members who were killed – Ali’s wife Amira Saleh Al-Dhaifani and their children Bushra Ali Yahya Salah, Dhikra Ali Yahya Salah, Saleh Ali Yahya Salah, Fatima Ali Yahya Salah and Yahya Ali Yahya Salah.
Source Sanaa Rohi included a screenshot of a Facebook post from an “eyewitness” named Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Sumaini who stated that three homes had been bombed in his neighborhood, Thaqban. In the first home, an entire family, including Ibrahim's cousin, Ibrahim’s son-in-law (it is unclear if these were different people or if they both referred to Ali), a father (Ali Yahya Salah Masoud), a mother, four daughters, and two sons were killed and their bodies were not able to be found under the rubble. In the second home, a mother and her son were killed, and in the third home, the eldest son of the family (16 years old or younger) was killed and his younger brother and sister were both injured, and were in the operating room at the time of reporting. A post from Amin Ali Al-Jalal further clarified that the father, mother, and children killed in the first house were Ali Yahya Salah Masoud and his family.
The Guardian quoted the tragic words of a 27-year-old mother of three who said that her parents and sisters were killed in the strike: “There’s nothing in this world, no matter how precious, that can replace my family. I feel like I die a hundred times a day from the grief.” A mourner at the funeral procession of the family emphasized that “We buried eight people from a single family, from a single house. There’s no sign that this was a military target. We’re their neighbours … we saw what happened.”
Muhammad Nashwan Al-Jamouli posted a memorial to his mother and his 11-year old brother who were killed in the strikes on their home in the Thaqban area of Bani al-Harith. Muhammad later posted that the funeral for his mother and brother would take place on Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Thaqban Bani al-Harith, at nine o’clock in the morning. A post from Morad Rashed memorialized Muhammad’s brother Omar Nashwan Al-Jamouli who he described as “a king in the form of a child. I have never known a child with such morals and manners in my entire life.” In an accompanying image, Omar was seen wearing a button-up shirt and suit jacket along with black aviator sunglasses.
Mohammed Qais provided a name for the boy killed in the third house – Saddam Hussein Obeid, son of homeowner Hussein Obeid, was killed and three members of his family were seriously wounded (including his younger brother and younger sister).
Children were also reportedly among those injured, and a video posted by @masdar201 showed at least three different children being treated for their injuries in a hospital – a young boy and two toddler-aged girls, one with a head injury. The mother of one of the toddler-aged girls could be heard saying to her daughter, Sarah, “where does it hurt, where does it hurt?” and she puts her finger to her right eye, and she says “your eye” and then a young man, a relative or potentially the doctor, said “there’s shrapnel.” Images published by @TvAlmasirah also included the three wounded children and a wounded man who appeared to have a head injury.
Speaking with Mwatana for Human Rights, a female victim injured in the strike said, "I suffer all night from back pain because I did not complete my treatment… we had no money, so I left the hospital while still needing care. Shrapnel is still in my thigh and foot, and I cannot put weight on them."
According to @a__250as, 10 Houthis were killed in the Thaqban area. A tweet from @aalnaasi claimed that an activist named Jalal Al-Salahi had published a tweet on April 1, 2025 stating that a home in the Thaqban area of Bani al-Harith District contained a missile launch pad, leading to the U.S. military destroying three homes in the area.
In a video posted by Sanaa Rohi which reportedly showed the seconds just before a U.S. airstrike in the Thaqban area, a man with a young child hanging on his back could be seen running by and a little over five seconds later, a loud explosion was heard and a flash of light could be seen.
According to Mohammed Qais, six raids were carried out. Middle East Eye spoke with a witness named Mohammed who said that the strikes wiped out four homes “in the blink of an eye,” including the home of Ali. “The strike hit the house at 8:00 p.m., killing the entire family. We rushed to the scene, searching for them in the rubble. We didn’t find their bodies. They were just pieces of flesh. It was a horrendous scene of unspeakable cruelty” said Mohammed. Middle East Eye also referred to “At least two anonymous accounts” (specifically citing @VleckieHond) who claimed that the Thaqban area was an underground Houthi military position, which could have been targeted by CENTCOM – the tweets cited have since been deleted.
Images from Abdulaziz Al-Shuaie showed a partially-destroyed cement building, with a window and a child’s doll strewn in the rubble. @alewsh100 published an image of a truck that was reportedly completely destroyed truck in the strike.
A video published by 'Yamakharij Alakhjaf Lawdaf' (originally by @TvAlmasirah) purportedly showed the “initial scenes” after the strike in Thaqban – a two-story cement home sustained damage to one side which suffered collapsed walls and ceilings, multiple rooms of a one-story home were collapsed which destroyed shelves and other furniture, the clothes of what appears to be a sewing area were destroyed in a third home, and a fourth home which was damaged. A graphic video posted by @TvAlmasirah included blood amongst the rubble of a building with people’s possessions crushed amongst the rubble.
According to a report by Mwatana for Human Rights, which was published in September 2026 by Brown University's Cost of War project, "all affected families were displaced to other locations." Speaking with Mwatana, one survivor stated: “One of these families is now living in a small grocery shop.”
Another survivor told Mwatana that “After the house was bombed, we no longer had a place to live.” According to the September 2026 report, "She currently lives with her family in the home of a relative of her husband near their destroyed house, but does not know how long this arrangement will last." She also described having to use “the wood from our destroyed bedroom furniture as fuel for baking.” Five months after the strike that destroyed his home and killed their 17-year-old son, her husband told Mwatana, “I lost my home, and I lost my son, who is still in the morgue refrigerator. I have not been able to bury him because I cannot afford the costs of retrieving his body from the hospital [...] The fact that my son remains in the refrigerator and that I cannot bury him is deeply distressing, but there is nothing I can do."
Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to the US. The Guardian spoke with CENTCOM who declined to comment of this incident but said they were “aware of the claims of civilian casualties related to the US strikes in Yemen, and we take those claims very seriously. We are currently conducting our battle-damage assessment and inquiry into those claims.”