© MSFDoctors Without Borders on Tuesday said that one of its health centers in northern Yemen was bombed overnight by the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia. One patient was burned and scratched and another was in critical condition because of the hasty evacuation.
About 12 patients and MSF staff members were inside the health center at the time of the strike and successfully evacuated between the two strikes. One patient was burned and scratched, and another was in critical condition because of the hasty evacuation. MSF said it had supplied the health center's coordinates to the Saudi Arabian coalition, which has been fighting against insurgent Houthi rebels in Yemen for about seven months. The health center is one of few operating medical facilities in Saada.
The bombing incident in Yemen follows the U.S. bombing of an MSF medical facility in Afghanistan, where at least 30 patients and staff members died. MSF has called for the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, created under the Geneva Conventions, to investigate.
"It is unacceptable that the bombing of a hospital and the killing of staff and patients can be dismissed as collateral damage or brushed aside as a mistake," MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu recently said at a press conference. "This was not just an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated.".
Comment: Saudia Arabia had the information from MSF about the hospital's location, but bombed anyway. Saudia Arabia appears to be taking the same indiscriminate bombing policy as the United States.