The strike, in which a member of MSF staff was also killed, was the latest in an increasing number of attacks targeting places commonly used by civilians, including hospitals where MSF doctors and nurses work.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels are condemning an airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition that hit a hospital, killing 11 people.
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.
“Once again, today we witness the tragic consequences of the bombing of a hospital”.
Yemen has seen nearly daily military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with internal sources putting the toll from the bloody aggression at about 10,000.
The airstrikes Monday comes just two day after 10 children were killed in Saudi-led airstrike on a school in Yemen’s stronghold of the Houthi group, according to MSF who said 28 children were also injured in the attack in the Haydan of Saada province.
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staffer was among the dead, it said.
MSF reported in May that since previous year, aerial attacks on MSF-supported health institutions have killed at least 100 staff members and wounded another 130.
MSF said it had shared the hospital’s Global Positioning System coordinates with all parties involved in the conflict.
The war and airstrikes have since killed over 6,400 people, mostly civilians.
“Deliberately targeting medical facilities is a serious violation of worldwide humanitarian law which would amount to a war crime”, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International’s deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Moon’s statement came after a Saudi air strike hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital and killed 14 civilians.
The Arab coalition has been battling Iran-backed rebels in Yemen since March 2015 in support of Yemen’s government, after the insurgents seized Sanaa before expanding to other parts of the country.
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.
A Saudi-led military coalition fighting Shiite Houthi rebels conducted 95 airstrikes throughout Yemen in the last 24 hours, killing at least six women in two cities, officials and residents said Thursday.
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A hospital operated by MSF is examined after it was hit by an air strike. 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.
