More than 15 people were killed and at least 20 civilians injured in Yemen on Monday when warplanes bombed a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders, reported The New York Times.
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“We’ve shared the Global Positioning System coordinates with all parties to the conflict including the Saudi-led coalition”, Mr McPhun said.
Since March 2015, the Arab coalition began to launch airstrikes against the Shiite Houthi minority rebels in Yemen.
The attack on the hospital came two days after an air strike on a school in Haydan, in Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, killed at least 10 children and wounded about 30, according to MSF. All the remaining patients and staff have been evacuated.
“Without action, these public gestures are meaningless for today’s victims”. “Either intentional or as a result of negligence, this is unacceptable”.
The airstrike on Abs Hospital, in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, occurred around 3.45pm yesterday, MSF said in a press release.
Rebel sources said the coalition struck a first aid building adjacent to the facility.
Rights groups have blamed both sides in the conflict of abuses, particularly in failing to protect civilians.
Harad itself is seeing fierce fighting and is frequently a target of heavy coalition air strikes.
The hospital had a 14-bed emergency room, a maternity unit and a surgical unit and had seen in an uptick in wounded patients in the last weeks, most hurt in clashes and in the bombing campaign, the group said on Twitter.
The charity claims to have always clearly communicated the Global Positioning System coordinates of the facilities it supports to the Saudi coalition, and demands that an independent investigation be carried out into the attacks.
After Monday’s airstrike, several global humanitarian groups have condemned the Yemeni hospital bombing.
The team is also investigating Saturday’s strikes on the school in the rebels’ northern stronghold of Saada.
The coalition denied targeting a school, instead saying it bombed a camp where Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers.
And in recent weeks civilian casualties have continued to mount with the United Nations recording 272 deaths and 543 injuries in the four months between April and August this year. It promised to publicly announce findings of the probe. At least five people were killed in January after a bombing targeted a health care institution in northern Yemen.
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“Sanaa global airport will be reopened to United Nations flights and those of other agencies from Monday”, a coalition statement said. There are now more than 2.5 million internally displaced people in Yemen, with a health service that struggles to cope and intermittent food and water supplies.
