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| A Yemeni hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières has been hit by a Saudi-led airstrike, the medical aid group has said, the latest bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in the country. | A Yemeni hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières has been hit by a Saudi-led airstrike, the medical aid group has said, the latest bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in the country. |
| Our facility in #Saada #Yemen was hit by several airstrikes last night with patients & staff inside the facility. | Our facility in #Saada #Yemen was hit by several airstrikes last night with patients & staff inside the facility. |
| Yemen’s state news agency, Saba, run by the Iran-allied Houthi group that is the coalition’s enemy, quoted the hospital director and said several people were injured in the attack. | |
| “The air raids resulted in the destruction of the entire hospital with all that was inside – devices and medical supplies – and the moderate wounding of several people,” Dr Ali Mughli said. | |
| Saba said other airstrikes hit a nearby girls school and damaged several homes. It was not immediately possible to confirm that report, and a coalition spokesman was not available for comment. | |
| Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab countries intervened in the civil war in Yemen in March, but seven months of air attacks to restore the Saudi-based Yemeni government to power have yet to loosen the Houthis’ grip over the capital, Sana’a. | |
| Human rights groups have expressed concern at the mounting deaths caused by the aerial bombing and ground fighting. More than 5,600 people have died in the conflict and shuttle diplomacy by a UN envoy has yet to achieve a political solution or slow the pace of combat. | |
| It is the second time this month that an MSF facility has been hit in a war zone. Its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was bombed by US forces on 3 October, killing about 30 people. |