Aid group says Yemen hospital hit in Shiite rebel stronghold

MSF communications officer Malak Shaher told Reuters the hospital was in the Razeh district of Saada province.

The two previous bombings were carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, according to Doctors Without Borders.

MSF regularly provided its health centres’ coordinates to all sides of the conflict, including the Saudi-led coalition forces, to prevent accidental attacks.

“We strongly condemn this and we reiterate to all parties to the conflict that patients & medical facilities must be respected”, a statement by MSF on Twitter said about the incident in the town of Razeh.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirmed to Sputnik on Sunday that one of the organization’s hospitals in Yemen had been subject to an attack.

Earlier MSF said it was an “airstrike”, but the group has since backed away from that description.

“[We] express our strongest outrage as this will leave a very fragile population without health care for weeks”.

“Once more it is civilians that are bearing the brunt of this war”.

MSF last month accused the coalition of bombing its clinic in Taez, south-west Yemen, where nine people were wounded including two agency staff.

The coalition said at the time that it would investigate MSF’s claim.

In October, air strikes hit another hospital run by MSF near Saada without causing deaths.

The UN envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived on Sunday in Sana’a in a bid to convince the rebels and their allies to attend fresh peace talks slated for next week.

Talks between the Yemen government and rebels in Switzerland last month ended with no major breakthrough.

Houthi supporters demonstrate against air strikes, in Yemen’s capital Sanaa.