On September 5 a year ago, over 131 people were killed at a wedding in the village of Al-wahjah.
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Teresa Sancristoval, MSF emergency programme manager for Yemen, said it was the fourth attack on an MSF-supported medical facility in Yemen in the past 12 months.
Mr McPhun said the Saudi-led coalition would have been aware “without doubt” of what the MSF facility was.
“Once again, today we witness the tragic consequences of the bombing of a hospital”.
“Even with the recent United Nations resolution calling for an end to attacks on medical facilities and high-level declarations of commitment to global humanitarian law, nothing seems to be done to make parties involved in the conflict in Yemen to respect medical staff and patients”.
The bombing comes two days after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeted a Koranic school in an enclave of the northern city of Saada, killing 10 children and wounding 28 more.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the weekend air strikes and called for a swift investigation.
The Islamic school says in a statement that the attack was a part of raids that have resumed after peace talks failed earlier this month between the Western and Saudi government of Yemen and Shiite Houthi rebels, who have seized the capital Sanaa, and other regions.
At least six people have been killed and 13 wounded in an air strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Yemen.
“Deliberately targeting medical facilities is a serious violation of worldwide humanitarian law which would amount to a war crime”, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International’s deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
It found the coalition guilty of “mistakenly” hitting a residential compound and an MSF-run hospital, but accused the rebels of having used the hospital as a hideout.
Independent investigators following worldwide standards will examine the incident, the statement added.
In one incident being probed as a war crime, a crisp factory was hit in the capital Sana’a on Tuesday, killing at least 14.
The air campaign, carried out without any worldwide mandate, has killed almost 10,000 people, a lot of them civilians, according to pro-Houthi sources.
The coalition, which last week released the report of an investigation into claims of civilian deaths in previous strikes, did not immediately comment.
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“The aircraft has bombed a training camp for the coup militias” coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri told AFP, asserting that the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents use children “as recruits”.
