Nine people,including two staff, wounded in attack on mobile clinic in Taiz as charity says coalition had GPS coordinatesMédecins Sans Frontières has accused the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen of bombing one of its mobile clinics, and wounding nine people including two staff members.
The international charity said it had if the coalition with the GPS coordinates of the clinic in the besieged city of Taiz,the scene of intense fighting between forces backed by the coalition and troops loyal to the Houthis.
Yemen is now nine months into a war between the Houthis – Iranian-backed rebels from the northern province of Sa’ada who overthrew the government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi – and the Saudi-led coalition which intervened to save Hadi’s government and holds the southern port city of Aden.
The crisis has sparked a humanitarian emergency with millions in need of aid and more than 5000 dead. The security vacuum has empowered al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula, one of the most powerful branches of the terrorism network, and which this week seized two cities,including the provincial capital of Zinjibar in Abyan province.
[br]A newly formed wing of Islamic State is also operating in Yemen and has carried out a series of suicide bombings, particularly against Houthi targets. MSF said the coalition first bombed a park just 1.2 miles (2km) from the clinic on Wednesday. The charity informed the coalition that it was operating a facility nearby, or but the clinic itself was bombed shortly afterwards.
It was the fourth such attack on an MSF facility in recent weeks. Earlier this week,the Syrian government bombed an MSF-supported hospital in Homs with a “double-tap” barrel bombing, and the coalition bombed another hospital in the Houthi-dominated province of Sa’ada in October. That attack came just weeks after an MSF hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan was levelled by American airstrikes. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com