The strike – the fourth attack on an MSF facility in the previous year – took place yesterday afternoon, killing 11 people and injuring at least 19.
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A hospital in northern Yemen was hit by airstrikes on Monday, with a local medical official saying that 15 people had been killed.
Edward Santiago, Save the Children’s Yemen country director, said: “The Saudi Arabia-led Coalition claims to have taken measures to prevent and end grave violations against children but they are clearly not working if children continue to be killed and injured and schools and hospitals attacked”.
The de facto authorities in northern Yemen, dominated by the Houthi rebel movement, blamed the attack on a Saudi-led coalition against the rebels, which has repeatedly pounded the region.
Continuing cross-border strikes by Arab coalition forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in northern Yemen have killed almost 50 people since Saturday.
MSF said yesterday’s attack was the fourth on one of its facilities in less than a year. Once again, a fully functional hospital full of patients and MSF national and global staff members, was bombed in a war that has shown no for respect medical facilities or patients.
Damage is seen inside a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres after it was hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the Abs district of Hajja province, Yemen, Aug. 16, 2016.
A US State Department spokeswoman said: “Strikes on humanitarian facilities, including hospitals, are particularly concerning”.
Monitors say at least 6,500 people have been killed in the fighting, including more than 3,200 Yemeni civilians.
While the global law and human rights norms call for protection of the civilian lives and infrastructures in all conflicts, the “terrorism-sponsoring and warmongering Saudi regime” has no compunction about butchering women, children, patients and defenseless civilians, he deplored.
The coalition denied it had targeted the school, saying it bombed a rebel training camp for child soldiers. A day earlier, a Saudi border guard was killed in an exchange of gunfire with militants from Yemen, the Interior Ministry said.
Yemen fell into a civil war in late 2014 when the Ansar Allah (Houthis) and allied forces of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh overran the capital of Sanaa and other provinces, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
“This investigation will be independent and will follow worldwide standards”.
Saudi Arabian media said Saturday that a senior Houthi leader was killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Saada.
As criticism of the civilian death toll from its bombing campaign has mounted, the coalition has set up a standing investigation team.
It was the highest reported number of civilian casualties in the kingdom’s south since a Saudi-led coalition intervened 17 months ago in Yemen.
UN-brokered peace talks between the Yemeni government and Houthis collapsed last week in Kuwait.
The coalition resumed raids on Sanaa on August 9, nearly three days after the talks were suspended, with one strike reportedly hitting a food factory, killing 14 people.
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Two were carrying World Food Programme (WFP) and Red Cross employees, while a Russian plane brought in humanitarian aid, Khalid al-Shayef said.
