Shells fired by Yemen’s Houthi group killed seven civilians in southern Saudi Arabia, Saudi state television reported, while an air strike by an Arab coalition destroyed a house east of the Yemeni capital killing nine family members, residents said.
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Moon’s statement came after a Saudi air strike hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital and killed 14 civilians.
On Tuesday, the coalition launched an investigation after global condemnation of an air raid that Doctors Without Borders said killed 14 people at a hospital in Yemen.
A Reuters witness at the scene of the hospital attack in the Abs district of Hajja province said medics could not immediately evacuate the wounded because war planes continued to fly over the area and emergency workers feared more bombings.
“Given the intensity of the current offensive and our loss of confidence in the SLC’s (Saudi-led coalition’s) ability to prevent such fatal attacks, MSF considers the hospitals in Saada and Hajjah governorates unsafe for both patients and staff”, it added.
The coalition stepped up the raids this month after UN-mediated peace talks between the rebels and the internationally-backed government were suspended.
More than 6,500 people have been killed, over half of them civilians, since the Saudi-led coalition began its assault on Yemen in March 2015.
CAIRO (AP) – Doctors Without Borders announced on Thursday that it’s withdrawing from northern Yemen due to what the global aid group called “indiscriminate bombings and unreliable reassurances” from the Saudi-led coalition that’s fighting Shiite rebels in the country.
MSF said it had shared the hospital’s Global Positioning System coordinates with all parties involved in the conflict.
MSF Director General Joan Tubau called on the Saudi coalition and its supporters to take steps to better protect civilians.
It also accused all sides in Yemen’s war of “indiscriminate attacks without any respect for civilians”.
Doctors Without Borders says one of its staff members was killed in Monday’s airstrike and 19 people were injured.
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“Our aim is to open programmes, not close them, especially considering the enormous needs in the north”, he said. In October of previous year another MSF hospital in the northern Yemen city of Saada was hit in a strike also attributed to the coalition.
