Doctors Without Borders withdraws from Yemen, blames Saudi Arabia

Medical aid group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) — also known as Doctors Without Borders — has announced it will withdraw from northern Yemen, in the wake of an airstrike by the Saudi coalition that struck one of its hospitals on Monday, killing 19 and wounding 24.

 

 

Medical aid group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) — also known as Doctors Without Borders — has announced it will withdraw from northern Yemen, in the wake of an airstrike by the Saudi coalition that struck one of its hospitals on Monday, killing 19 and wounding 24.

The group announced in a statement: MSF is withdrawing its staff members from Haydan, Razeh, Al Gamouri and Yasnim hospitals in Saada governorate, and also from Abs and Al Gamouri hospitals in Hajjah governorate. The airstrike on Abs Hospital was the fourth and the deadliest attack on an MSF-supported medical facility during this war, while there have been numerous attacks on other health facilities all over Yemen.

The New York Times notes this was the fourth facility supported by MSF to be hit by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes over the past 17 months. 

It is worth mentioning that the Saudis and their allies have been running an air campaign against Shia people in Yemen since 2015.