In Yemen, at least five people have been killed and 10 others wounded after a projectile hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital. The aid group says it cannot confirm the origin of the attack, but that planes were flying over the hospital at the time. Teresa Sancristóval of Doctors Without Borders spoke out after the attack.
Teresa Sancristóval: “For this hospital, this concrete hospital, it’s the third time that it’s attacked. And for MSF, it’s the third time that we are attacked, in general, as a medical facility. I would like to reiterate that we are not the only hospitals that they have been hit; there are those that—there are many other hospitals that have been hit. And this means a lot for the population. The population is deprived from medical assistance. The population is the main, main suffering on this war.”
At least 70 Yemeni health clinics have been damaged or destroyed since the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition began bombing Houthi rebels in March. Doctors Without Borders says it regularly provides all warring parties, including the Saudi coalition, with its hospitals’ GPS coordinates.