Yemen hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres hit by Saudi-led air strike, group says

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been bombed in a Saudi-led air strike, wrecking the facility and wounding several people, the hospital director says.

"The MSF facility in Saada, (north) Yemen was hit by several air strikes last night with patients and staff inside the facility," MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said in a tweet.


A Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in Yemen's civil war in March to try to restore its government after it was toppled by Houthi forces.

Yemen's state news agency Saba, run by the Iran-allied Houthis, quoted the Heedan hospital director as saying several people were injured in the attack, which occurred in Houthi-controlled north.

"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," Ali Mughli said.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-27/yemen-hospital-hit-by-saudi-led-air-strike/6890732

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Open season on Hospitals, it seems. First the US, then Russia, now the Kingdom(re dictatorship) of Saudi Arabia. The use of force in the middle east as a means of achieving political ends must stop; it's continuation will only result in more senseless carnage and civilian deaths.

"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," Ali Mughli said.

Huh -- "moderate wounding" indeed -- that's a new coinage for civilian casualties.