Ministry of Health condemns Saudi-led coalition aerial attack on Kitaf Hospital

SANAA, March 27 (YPA) -The Ministry of Public Health and Population in the National Salvation Government has condemned “the coalition’s continued disregard for Yemeni lives, ” in which the coalition begins its fifth year of war with “Committing four war crimes targeting the gate of A hospital in Sa’ada, killing seven civilians, including four children, and wounding 7 others, most of them still in critical conditions.”

“Attacking civilian facilities is a war crime, not taking to account the lives of the two security personnel is a second one, destroying health facilities, endangering the workers, and injuring patients are a third war crime, destroying an ambulance and wounding The driver is the fourth one, “The ministry said in a statement.

“The coalition committed such an offence after four years of its aggression against Yemen and in this way, which is against all international and humanitarian laws. This reflects the barbarity and brutality of this aggression, “The ministry said in a statement condemning the attack on Kitaf Hospital.

The statement stressed that the Saudi-led coalition “does not give the slightest consideration and attention to UN and international bodies and organizations, instead it continues to disregard Yemeni lives, since this crime comes in a series of heinous crimes committed in the district of Kitaf. ”

The Ministry also denounced “The UN silence and blatant and flagrant disregard for these crimes committed by the Coalition in Yemen and with the cover of the US and British.”

At the end of the statement, the Ministry of Public Health and Population called on “organisations and free people of the whole world at the official, trade union, party or popular level to move seriously to stop this aggression and lift the blockade on Yemen, and to Bring the criminal leaders of Allied States to the International courts. ”

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