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'Healthcare is seen as a weapon – you take out a doctor, you take out 10,000 people they can’t care for'

Almost two dozen people, including civilian rescuers and an ambulance driver from an MSF-affiliated hospital, have reportedly been killed after Saudi-led coalition planes carried out repeated airstrikes on the same target in Sa’ada province, Yemen.

According to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF), there have been three attacks in a three-month span on their facilities in Yemen. An October 27th airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition destroyed Haydan hospital. Then, on December 2nd, a Saudi-led strike hit a health facility in Taiz. This past Sunday, January 10th, a Saudi-led coalition projectile hit the MSF-supported Shiara Hospital in Razeh. Combined, these incidents have resulted in significant death, injury, and destruction.

In Yemen, bombs slammed into a tented clinic where Doctors Without Borders was treating people displaced by war in the city of Taiz, wounding nine people, including two clinic staff. The main hospital in the city was hit by rockets in November.