Saudi Airstrikes in Yemen Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital

By teleSUR

27 October 15

Another MSF hospital was recently destroyed in Afghanistan by a U.S. airstrike.

hospital run by Swiss organization Doctors Without Borders in the northern Yemeni city of Saada was bombed Tuesday in a Saudi-led air strike, wrecking the facility and wounding several people, officials reported.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French abbreviation MSF, tweeted the news:

The Saudi-led Arab campaign aims to undermine the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh, but the civilian death toll has escalated since then, alarming the United Nations and human rights groups.

The Houthis, whose name means "Supporters of God," follow a similar ideology to Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah and played a prominent role during the ousting of dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011. They have since captured several cities, including capital Sanaa.

The Saudi airstrikes have constantly targeted civilians, earlier this month an aircraft hit a wedding ceremony killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured and in late September, fighter jets struck another ceremony killing more than 135 people, many of them women and children.

About 6,400 people, including some 500 children, have reportedly been killed in Saudi airstrikes, and nearly 14,000 have been injured since March 26 when Saudi Arabia and 10 of its Middle East allies began their military offensive in Yemen with over 100 warplanes and 150,000 troops.

This is not the first time that a MSF facility has been targeted by a military airstrike. On Oct. 3, another hospital was bombed in a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, killing 22 people, including 12 MSF staff.