Four killed as Saudi jets bomb MSF health facility in northern Yemen

Althawra Net

New Saudi airstrikes have struck a health center operated by charity health organization Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French abbreviation MSF, in northern Yemen, killing at least four people and wounding several others, according to local reports.
The medical facility, located in the Razeh district of Sa’ada Province, was bombed on Sunday, Yemeni media report said.
The reports said that at least 15 others were also injured in the deadly airstrikes, which sent shockwaves through the neighborhood.
The Paris-based medical humanitarian organization strongly denounced the strike, describing it as part of a “worrying pattern” of attacks on medical facilities.
“We strongly condemn this incident that confirms a worrying pattern of attacks to essential medical services and express our strongest outrage as this will leave a very fragile population without healthcare for weeks,” Raquel Ayora, MSF director of operations, said on Sunday.
She noted that the organization constantly shares the coordinates of its facilities with those warring sides fighting in the impoverished Arab nation.
This is not the first time that Saudi fighter jets target an MSF-run hospital in Yemen.
In early December 2015, Saudi warplanes bombed an MSF clinic in the southwestern province of Taiz, killing at least three people and inflicting heavy damage on the medical center. Also in late October last year, Saudi missile strikes hit another MSF clinic in Yemen’s Sa’ada Province, leaving several people injured.