UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply disturbed” by the intensification of air raids in Yemen.
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Alessandra Vellucci from the United Nations said: “The Secretary General notes that the parties to the conflict in Yemen have damaged or destroyed over 70 health centres including three other MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres)-supported facilities”.
The facility has been providing a range of services and medical aid for internally displaced people, along with emergency and maternal health care and surgery, the group said on its website.
“This is the fourth attack against an MSF facility in less than 12 months”, says Teresa Sancristóval, desk manager for the Emergency Unit in Yemen.
The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes in Yemen since March 2015.
It said one of its staff members was among those killed when an aerial bomb hit the hospital compound, also killing 10 patients.
Amnesty International condemned the attack in a statement that said the targeting of medical facilities could constitute “a serious violation of international humanitarian law, which would amount to a war crime”.
Another air attack hit what MSF described as a school in neighbouring Saada province on Saturday, killing 10 children.
“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”, the group said.
The coalition launched the bombing campaign in March previous year after the Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies seized control of large parts of the Arabian Peninsula nation, including the capital Sanaa.
Medical teams are treating the wounded after an airstrike hit the Abs hospital in Hajjah province, the aid group said on Twitter.
Nine people were killed in the explosion, including one MSF staff member, while two more patients died while being transferred to another clinic.
The Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, began its campaign of air strikes against Iran-backed Huthi rebels and their allies on March 26, 2015.
The Saudi-led warplanes fighting Shiite Houthi rebels launched airstrikes against military targets of Houthis and their ally forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in several northern provinces on Monday, including the capital Sanaa, according to reports by Houthi-controlled Saba news agency. The number of casualties was not yet known, although reports on social media suggest there could be as many as 20 people killed or wounded.
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“Sanaa worldwide airport will be reopened to United Nations flights and those of other agencies from Monday”, a coalition statement said.
