USA officials have regularly urged their major Middle East ally to avoid harming non-combatants there.
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Since the campaign began, the United States military has conducted an average of two refuelling sorties every day and provided limited intelligence support to the coalition.
The UN chief has already taken flak for dropping Saudi Arabia from a list of children’s rights violators after coming under “undue pressure”.
“If the need arises”, the team directly assigned to coalition cooperation could be augmented, the spokesman said.
The joint cell was established around the start of coalition operations in March previous year, McConnaughey said.
The charity said their hospitals have been repeatedly detroyed by Saudi-led air strikes, even after they shared the satellite coodinates of their hospitals with parties involved in the conflict.
Reuters reports that the USA withdrew most of its Joint Combined Planning Cell from Saudi Arabia in June. “MSF asks the Saudi-led coalition and the governments supporting the coalition, particularly the USA, United Kingdom and France, to ensure an immediate application of measures to substantially increase the protection of civilians”. The facilities will continue to operate, with volunteers and staff from the Ministry of Health, but their services were already stretched terribly.
The humanitarian group added that it is neither satisfied nor reassured by the USA -backed and Saudi-led coalition’s statement that this attack was a mistake.
Yemeni workers at an MSF hospital allegedly hit by an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Abs, in the northern province of Hajjah, on August 16.
A US Defence Department spokesman said Saturday Washington’s support for the coalition was not a “blank check”. “The JCPC forward team that was in Saudi Arabia is now in Bahrain”, said Chris Sherwood, a Pentagon spokesman, who added that US aerial tankers continue to refuel Saudi aircraft.
The war in Yemen has left a security vacuum throughout parts of the country.
MSF also said that air strikes in northern Yemen – a stronghold of the rebels known as Houthis – have intensified since peace talks collapsed earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Yemeni troops attacked the southern Saudi city of Najran again, firing more than 20 rockets at the army base there.
Thousands of civilians have been killed in the violence.
Yemen has been gripped by unrest since Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels and allied loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh overran the capital Sanaa in September 2014.
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19 de agosto de 2016, 10:48Riyadh, Aug 19 (Prensa Latina) The coalition led by Saudi Arabia against the rebels in Yemen have expressed regret for the withdrawal of the staff of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) from six hospitals in the country, and said it hoped for urgent discussions to resolve the issue.
