Iran Condemns Saudi Airstrike on Yemen Hospital

Following the fatal bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières (doctors without borders) hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah province on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the international community’s deplorable silence on the attacks against schools and hospitals has encouraged Saudi Arabia to keep committing such crimes.

While the international law and human rights norms call for protection of the civilian lives and infrastructures in all conflicts, the “terrorism-sponsoring and warmongering Saudi regime” has no compunction about butchering women, children, patients and defenseless civilians, he deplored.

The Riyadh regime is furious at the Yemeni representatives’ decision to resume parliamentary activities, thus the “child murdering regime ruling Saudi Arabia” has intensified its ceaseless airstrikes on the hospitals and schools as a revenge on civilians.

At least 11 people were killed and 19 others injured in the Saudi airstrike on the MSF hospital.

The strike, in which a member of MSF staff was also killed, was the latest in an increasing number of attacks targeting places commonly used by civilians, including hospitals where MSF doctors and nurses work. It followed similar airstrikes on a food factory and a school in the course of the last week.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

According to media reports, more than 8,000 Yemenis, most of them civilians, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression so far.