The hospital in the northern city of Saada was hit late Monday, but MSF (Doctors Without Borders) said there were no casualties.
The Saudi mission to the United Nations said in a statement that “the Arab coalition aircrafts did not attack the hospital” and were not in Saada at the time.
Coalition forces had been given the exact coordinates of the hospital which were placed “within the forbidden targets,” the Saudi statement said.
“Accordingly, this hospital could not have been targeted by the coalition forces,” it added.
- The Saudi mission said a thorough investigation was under way and expressed its “deep regret” that Ban had blamed the coalition “without waiting for full and accurate information about that regrettable incident.”
In a statement issued Tuesday, Ban condemned the air strikes which he said had been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition and called for an investigation.
The U.N. chief renewed his call for an end to the fighting including the air campaign launched by Saudi Arabia in March to push back an advance by Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen.
A U.N. bid to launch peace talks in June failed over demands for a Houthi withdrawal from seized territory, but this time, much effort is put in ensuring there is agreement on the agenda.
[alarabiya.net - With AFP]
29/10/15
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Friday that the Saudi-led coalition’s denial of shelling a hospital in Yemen contradicts the facts....
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According to MSF, one of its hospitals in northern Yemen had been struck by missiles on Monday.
No casualties were reported, but the hospital, which served around 150 people per week, was destroyed.
The international NGO’s comments come after Saudi UN envoy Abdallah al-Mouallimi denied that coalition planes hit the hospital.
“The Arab coalition aircraft did not carry out operations in Saada at the time of the reported incident,” Mouallimi told a news conference Wednesday. “The wise thing to do is to await the results of the investigation.”
On Thursday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric also responded to the Saudi denial by asserting that the attack on the MSF-run hospital was carried out by the Saudi-led coalition.
“The issue of who controls the skies and who has the air power, I think, is clear for many people to see,” Dujarric told reporters in New York.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/guncel/msf-insists-yemen-hospital-bombed-by-saudi-led-coalition/457953
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