NEWS : Hospitals Are Under Fire in Yemen’s War!!!

Civilians and doctors are no longer safe in the places they need the most !

As Yemen’s bloody conflict continues, medical facilities and personnel are repeatedly coming under fire, which drastically reduces the country’s access to desperately needed emergency medical care. As the wreckage of hospitals and clinics indicate, the war launched by a Saudi-led coalition against Houthi militants is being fought with utter disregard for international humanitarian law—with the silent consent of the U.S., the U.K., France, and other members of the U.N. Security Council.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), of which I’m the executive director in the U.S., has treated more than 20,000 people in Yemen since this war began last March. Over the past three months, three MSF-supported health facilities in Yemen have come under attack, and an ambulance driver working alongside MSF was killed by an airstrike in Saada province as he attempted to reach people wounded in an earlier strike on Jan.21. All of these incidents were clear violations of the laws of war and the protections those laws afford medical spaces and personnel.

On Jan. 10, a projectile hit Shiara Hospital in northern Yemen, killing at least six and injuring seven.

A month earlier, on Dec. 2, 2015, three airstrikes targeted a park in Taiz’s Al Houban District in southern Yemen. MSF staff from a clinic in the area evacuated the wounded and informed coalition officials that airplanes were still attacking. Soon after, MSF’s clinic was hit. Nine people were wounded, including two MSF staff members.

And on Oct. 26, coalition fighter jets repeatedly bombed a Ministry of Health hospital in Haydan District, in the north, where MSF teams were treating war-wounded patients, pregnant women and children.

The Saudi-led coalition is waging a military campaign that treats civilians and civilian structures as legitimate military targets!

Coalition fighter jets and artillery have repeatedly hit homes, roads, bridges, schools, gas stations, markets, medical sites, ambulances, supply trucks and displacement camps, killing upwards of 2,800 civilians, according to the United Nations, and wounding many more.

 

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Hospitals Are Under Fire in Yemen's War

				Hospitals Are Under Fire in Yemen's War Civilians and doctors are no longer safe in the places they need the most
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