Hospital Aided by Doctors Without Borders Is Bombed in Yemen

[Purveyor]

Source: New York Times

By KAREEM FAHIMJAN. 10, 2016

CAIRO — A hospital in northern Yemen supported by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders was struck by ordnance early Sunday, killing at least four people and causing the collapse of several buildings, the organization said in a statement.

It was the third time in three months that a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen had been damaged or destroyed. At least 10 people were injured in the latest attack, including three of the group’s staff.

The medical charity said it could not confirm which party in Yemen’s civil war had fired what it called a “projectile,” but said that “planes were seen flying over the facility at the time.”

A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia controls the skies over Yemen, and has carried out thousands of bombing runs in the country since entering the war last March. At least one other projectile fell near the hospital, Doctors Without Borders said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/world/middleeast/hospital-aided-by-doctors-without-borders-is-bombed-in-yemen.html?_r=0

[polly7]

1. They are purposefully destroying Yemen.

and the rest of the world does nothing. So many war crimes and atrocities, millions of children now malnourished and desperate for a next meal - this hospital bombing is just a blip on what they've done so far, as horrible as it is.

*ck Saudi Arabia!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. We are watching planned genocide of the citizens of Syria, Yemen

parts of Afghanistan, and parts of Iraq.
in each case, housing, water, power, roads were deliberately destroyed, leaving people with no jobs, no income, no ways to get food.

In Syria,in one area, they ARE starving, and this gets very little coverage in US press.

[polly7]

4. You're right. No-one who carried out the operations to destroy infrastructure, hospitals,

prevent aid from getting in, and all the things you said, can claim this isn't anything but planned genocide. It makes me ill, and especially that it's no real tragedy for the rest of the world to worry about and to confront those doing it.

[Octafish]

2. Money Trumps Peace.

Evidently, that includes Hospitals and Doctors and Nurses and Patients and Civilians and Everyone Else not deemed of use to the warmongers.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. I am old enough to remember

when bombing a hospital was a war crime.

Then again, so was torture.