The coalition stepped up the raids this month after UN-mediated peace talks between the rebels and the internationally-backed government were suspended.
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Damage is seen inside a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres after it was hit by a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the Abs district of Hajja province, Yemen August 16, 2016.
Following the 15 August aerial bombing of Abs hospital in Hajjah governorate, which killed 19 people and injured 24, MSF has made a decision to evacuate its staff from the hospitals it supports in Saada and Hajjah governorates in northern Yemen: Haydan, Razeh, Al Gamouri, and Yasnim hospitals in Saada, and Abs and Al Gamouri hospitals in Hajjah.
An Arab military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, has been conducting air strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen since March 2015 in support of the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The 14-member JIAT was set up as a standing investigation team following mounting criticism of the civilian death toll from the bombing campaign.
Earlier this month, the assessment team said it acknowledged “shortcomings” in two of eight cases it investigated of air strikes on civilian targets in Yemen.
The war in Yemen has left a security vacuum throughout parts of the country.
“They were deceiving people by this negotiation, to re-organise their force, re-supplying their forces and getting back to fighting”.
This comes after a Sunday incident in which Saudi warplanes attacked a school, killing 10 children, and a Monday incident in which they destroyed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing 15 more civilians.
In spite of a recent resolution by the United Nations condemning violence against medical facilities, Sancristóval said that nothing had been done by global leaders to protect medical facilities in Yemen.
After killing at least 18 people in two separate airstrikes over the past three days, the Saudi coalition killed at least 17 more civilians Tuesday, a lot of them women and children, in two airstrikes on a family home in the east of the capital Sanaa.
“Coalition officials repeatedly state that they honor global humanitarian law, yet this attack shows a failure to control the use of force and to avoid attacks on hospitals full of patients”, the group said.
“This is the fourth attack against an MSF facility in less than 12 months”.
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Fresh coalition strikes on Tuesday struck Abs, Saada and areas surrounding Sanaa, military sources and residents said.
