At least 11 people have been killed, including an MSF staff member, and 19 injured.
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Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Monday hit a hospital in a rebel-held province of northwestern Yemen, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
An airstrike has hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen, with 20 people reportedly killed or wounded.
A spokesman for Ban said he condemned the attack and urged parties “to prevent further violations of worldwide humanitarian law and human rights and do everything in their power to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure”.
The Arab coalition, assembled by Saudi Arabia, launched an air campaign against the rebels in March 2015.
“This is the fourth attack against an MSF facility in less than 12 months”, said Teresa Sancristóval, the MSF emergency program manager for Yemen.
In the statement, the group said that the hospital’s Global Positioning System coordinates were repeatedly shared with all sides of the conflict.
“It is confirmed that a Saudi-led airstrike today hit a hospital run by MSF team since July 2015 in Abbs district”, MSF spokeswoman Malak Shahir told Xinhua.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the air strike on Sunday and called for a investigation, which the coalition said it would conduct, according to a statement sent to Reuters.
An air strike by the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen killed nine civilians east of Sanaa on Tuesday, residents said, the third deadly air raid reported to have to hit civilian targets since Saturday.
The coalition increased air strikes this month after UN-mediated peace talks between the rebels and Yemen’s government were suspended.
“Coalition officials repeatedly state that they honor worldwide humanitarian law, yet this attack shows a failure to control the use of force and to avoid attacks on hospitals full of patients.” it continued.
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.
On Monday, it promised to investigate another attack that MSF said had killed 10 children over the weekend at a school in the rebel-held northern province of Saada.
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The coalition denied targeting the school, instead saying it bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers. In a joint statement, Oxfam, Save the Children and others pointed out that air strikes were behind more than half of the 785 children killed and 1,168 wounded in Yemen past year.
