In Yemen, residents of the capital Sana’a say a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led airstrike killed nine civilians Tuesday. This comes as Doctors Without Borders calls for an independent investigation into Monday’s strike on a hospital, which killed as many as 15 people. Monday’s attack on the hospital marks at least the fourth time U.S.-backed, Saudi-led airstrikes have hit a Doctors Without Borders-supported hospital in Yemen during the 17-month conflict. The group says it had provided the Saudi-led coalition with coordinates for all four of these hospitals, so they would not be struck. This is Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Doctors Without Borders’ legal director.
Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier: “They’re sorry, but we are dead. They killed our patients, they killed our staff. So, in fact, it’s even more worrying when they say, 'No, we didn't want it.’ At least if we were discussing, 'You had combatants in your hospital, we wanted to strike them,' at least we would be discussing about intention. Now we are left with, you know, people using high-technological weapons—but without precision?”