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The United States' proies strike again. I wonder how western media will whitewash this.
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen
RT,
10
January, 2016
At
least five people have been killed in a missile strike on a Medecins
Sans Frontieres medical facility in Yemen. The organization “strongly
condemns this,” while adding that 10 people have been injured in
the attack.
“We
can confirm five dead people; we have transferred several injured to
our other hospital in Sanaa, some of them are in critical condition,”
MSF director of operations Raquel Ayora told RT.
"The
hospital is no longer functioning. It's been decreasing its services
to the civilian population over the last months, only running
life-saving and essential services. And right now there is no
capacity to provide medical assistance in this hospital," she
added.
The
facility, which was hit by a rocket on Sunday, is in Razeh in the
north of the country. In a statement on Twitter, Medecins Sans
Frontieres (MSF) say they, "strongly condemn this and we
reiterate to all parties to the conflict that patients & medical
facilities must be respected."
"We
haven't received ... any feedback [so far] from any of our contacts
in the different lines of command, so we can not confirm if any
investigation has been launched," the MSF official told RT.
MSF International
#Yemen: An MSF supported hospital has been hit by a projectile in Northern Yemen causing at least 4 dead and 10 injured #Razeh
According
to MSF staff on the ground, one missile hit the Shiara Hospital,
where the humanitarian organization has been operating since
November, 2015. MSF say they are unable to say who was responsible
for the attack, but mentioned planes were seen flying over the
facility at the time the attack took place. The organization adds
that the death toll could rise as there is the possibility that
people are still trapped in the rubble.
“All
the warring parties, including the Saudi-led coalition, are regularly
informed of the GPS coordinates of the medical sites where MSF works
and we are in constant dialogue with them to ensure that they
understand the severity of the humanitarian consequences of the
conflict and the need to respect the provision of medical services,”
said Raquel Ayora, MSF’s Director of Operations.
MSF
pointed out on their Twitter feed that this is the third severe
incident the organization has had to deal with in the last three
months.
“Our
teams struggle on a daily basis to ensure the respect of health
facilities,” the group stated.
RT
‘Disproportionate amount’ of destruction: UN human rights chief slams Saudi strikes in Yemen http://on.rt.com/706f
In
October 2015, MSF said a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a Yemeni
hospital with patients and staff inside.
"We
don't know if it was a targeted situation or a mistake. Hospitals in
the area provide essential services to [a] population that is
suffering enormously from the consequences of this conflict... We are
in contact with all the [fighting] parties and it's really difficult
to explain how it [attacks on hospitals] can happen. It's [become] a
trend, it's happening more and more in the last few months, and
delivering essential medical assistance in Yemen and some other
countries is becoming almost impossible," Ayora told RT.
Laurent
Sury, MSF’s emergency coordinator said the medical facility was
targeted six times by airstrikes, even though coalition forces had
coordinates of the hospital.
The
hospital was completely destroyed, and several people were injured.
The
Saudi-led coalition launched its anti-Houthi campaign in March 2015,
after the anti-government rebels started capturing large parts of
Yemen, including the capital Saana, and the country’s
second-largest city, the port of Aden.
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.@MSF: many hospitals have closed their doors, unable to operate in the current circumstances in #Yemen #YemenCrisis
On
January 5, the UN Security Council urged the warring parties in Yemen
to participate in another round of peace talks this month and
"expressed deep concern regarding the dire humanitarian
situation in Yemen which continues to worsen."
The
organization says more than 21 million people in Yemen need help, or
about 80 percent of the population. More than 5,800 people have been
killed in Yemen since March, about half of them civilians, according
to the UN, as cited by AFP.
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