MSF condemns continued Saudi attacks on its facilities

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suffered a successive wave of abuses while working in Yemen.

Although MSF has made many complaints about systematic targeting of its medical facilities and crews by the Saudi-led coalition, this did not prevent coalition forces from continuing to target the organisation's facilities. 

 On October 2, which is  International day against Violence, the MSF took this occasion as a reminder for respecting the international law in Yemen, ensuring the protection of the patients, wounded, medical staff and medical facilities

MSF said in a tweet on Wednesday that its subsidized medical facilities in Yemen have been bombed six times in different areas since 2015, stressing that violence against medical staff and patients is unacceptable.

MSF said that it is operating in Yemen in order to provide safe health care to Yemeni men, women and children in 10 provinces, noting that it provides medical care solely on the basis of medical need without discrimination.

In the following report, the Yemen Press Agency reviews the facts of the violations that MSF has suffered in Yemen since the beginning of the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

The first was in October 2015, when a coalition aircraft targeted an MSF field hospital in Haydan area of Saada governorate.

Less than two months later, coalition aircraft targeted a mobile medical clinic in al-Hawban area of Taiz province in December 2015.

Coalition airstrikes also targeted an MSF ambulance in Saada governorate, killing seven MSF staff members and injuring others in January 2016.

The MSF-supervised Abs Rural Hospital in Hajjah province was directly bombed in August 2018.

In addition to the suspension of the organization's work in Aden province on August 31 2018, after militias stormed the hospital and kidnapped of one of the wounded was carried out in April this year.

The organisation issued a statement protesting the serious violations against  its medical facilities in the city of Taiz during the conflict between coalition rival factions in March, during which health facilities were stormed and wounded were killed by rival militias.