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Does this
looks familiar to you? U.S. fighter jets struck an Afghan hospital
run by Doctors Without Borders on October 3, 2015, with an air raid
lasting at least 29 minutes, in the Taliban-held northern city of
Kunduz. As reported, the U.S. authorities knew they were attacking a hospital facility. Similarly,
their allies, the brutal regime of Saudi Arabia, a major financier of
the barbarian jihadists, followed the same path.
From PressTV
:
New Saudi
airstrikes have struck a health center operated by charity health
organization Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French
abbreviation MSF, in northern Yemen, killing at least four
people and wounding several others, according to local
reports.
The
medical facility, located in the Razeh district of Sa’ada
Province, was bombed on Sunday, Yemeni media report said. The
reports said that at least 15 others were also injured in the
deadly airstrikes, which sent shockwaves through the
neighborhood. The Paris-based medical humanitarian organization
strongly denounced the strike, describing it as part of a
"worrying pattern" of attacks on medical facilities.
“We
strongly condemn this incident that confirms a worrying pattern of
attacks to essential medical services and express our strongest
outrage as this will leave a very fragile population without
healthcare for weeks,” Raquel Ayora, MSF director of
operations, said on Sunday.
She noted that the organization
constantly shares the coordinates of its facilities with those
warring sides fighting in the impoverished Arab nation. “All
warring parties are regularly informed of the GPS coordinates of
the medical sites where MSF works,” said Ayora, adding,
“There is no way that anyone with the capacity to carry out
an air strike or launch a rocket would not have known” the
functioning health facility. Ayora concluded by saying that
civilians were bearing the brunt of the ongoing war on Yemen.
“Once more it is civilians that bear the brunt of this war.”
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"Coincidentally",
another key ally of the US empire in the Middle East, Israel,
repeatedly struck medical facilities in the ongoing Gaza strip
conflict. Various reports by the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA), show that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), had
targeted medical facilities in Gaza Strip:
“Access
to maternal health services is increasingly limited in the face of
attacks against health facilities and increased pressure on services.
Overnight, there were reports of heavy shelling at Beit Hanoun
hospital, and it has been reported that six out of thirteen hospitals
in Gaza have now been severely damaged during this conflict.”
[fa.ev/gaza-situation-report-18]
“Al-Aqsa
Hospital in Deir El Baleh was also reportedly shelled, killing five
people, including two doctors, and wounding at least 70.”
[fa.ev/gaza-situation-report-14]
Of course,
we should not expect these war crimes ever be brought to an
international court ...
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