Paris-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF) tweeted that the Abs hospital in the rebel-held northwestern province of Hajja “was targeted by air strikes today at 15:45 Yemen time”.
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The coalition of Arab states intervened in the country after Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa and ejected the former government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Mansour Hadi.
A spokesman for the coalition did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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Nine people were killed in the explosion, including one MSF staff member, while two more patients died while being transferred to another clinic.
That forced the closure of Sanaa airport, but its director said three flights – carrying World Food Programme (WFP) and Red Cross employees as well as humanitarian aid – landed on Tuesday.
A recently formed rebel council governing from Sanaa called on the United Nations to form an “independent committee to investigate” the coalition “crimes”.
Saudi Ekhbariyah television said projectiles fired by the Iran-allied Houthis landed at an industrial area in the southern city of Najran, close to the Yemeni border, in one of the deadliest attacks on Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabian media said Saturday that a senior Houthi leader was killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Saada.
The 14-member coalition that was formed by Saudi Arabia – the Joint Incident Assessment Team (JIAT) – announced that they started an investigation on the bombing of the Abs hospital after global condemnation.
This is the aftermath of an air strike on a hospital facility run by medical aid group MSF in northern Yemen.
The group said the strike hit near the Houthi rebel stronghold of Saada, where teams were still attending to the wounded.
Rights group Amnesty International described the bombardment as “deplorable”, saying it “appears to be the latest in a string of unlawful attacks targeting hospitals, highlighting an alarming pattern of disregard for civilian life”.
– An airstrike by a US -backed Saudi-led military coalition struck a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northwestern Yemen on Monday, the latest bombing of a civilian site since a peace deal between the nation’s warring factions collapsed last week.
The global doctors’ forum confirmed the news in a statement released later on Monday.
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The U.S. State Department is “deeply concerned” about the reported hospital strike and is conferring with Saudi officials about civilian casualties, said spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau. “The shrinking humanitarian space and limited access to essential services for Yemenis, a situation exacerbated by the return to full-scale hostilities, is a matter of even greater concern”, Vellucci said.
