{"id":37613,"date":"2019-03-27T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37613"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:23:01","slug":"yemens-war-kitaf-air-raid-kills-seven-including-four-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37613","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s war: Kitaf air raid kills seven, including four children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seven people, including four children, were killed in an air raid near a hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen<\/a>, aid group Save the Children said.<\/p>\n

The organisation, which supports the hospital, said in a statement sent to the Associated Press news agency that two adults were also unaccounted for after the attack on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Save The Children said a missile struck a petrol station near the entrance to Kitaf rural hospital, about 100km from the city of Saada, at 9:30am local time.<\/p>\n

“The missile was said to have landed within 50 metres of the facility’s main building,” it said.<\/p>\n

The organisation said the hospital had been open for half an hour and many patients and staff were arriving on a busy morning.<\/p>\n

Among the dead were a health worker and the worker’s two children and a security guard, it said.<\/p>\n

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Save the Children, which reported earlier this week that on average 37 Yemeni children a month had been killed or injured by foreign bombs in the last year, demanded an urgent investigation into the attack.<\/p>\n

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the organisation’s chief executive, said: “We are shocked and appalled by this outrageous attack.<\/p>\n

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“Innocent children and health workers have lost their lives in what appears to been an indiscriminate attack on a hospital in a densely populated civilian area,” she said. “Attacks like these are a breach of international law.”<\/p>\n

Thorning-Schmidt said the hospital is one of many Save the Children supports in Yemen, “but time after time, we see a complete disregard by all warring parties in Yemen for the basic rules of war.”<\/p>\n

The conflict in Yemen<\/a> began with the 2014 takeover of the capital, Sanaa, by Houthi rebels, who toppled the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.<\/p>\n

A Saudi-led coalition allied with Hadi’s internationally recognised government has been fighting the Houthis since 2015.<\/p>\n

Air raids by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties and killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. The Houthis have fired long-range missiles into Saudi Arabia<\/a> and targeted vessels in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

The fighting in the Arab world’s poorest country has killed thousands of civilians, left millions suffering from food and medical shortages, and pushed the country to the brink of famine.<\/p>\n

UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has said about 80 percent of Yemen’s population – 24 million people – need humanitarian assistance including nearly 10 million “just a step away from famine” and nearly 240,000 “facing catastrophic levels of hunger”.<\/p>\n

Thorning-Schmidt called for an immediate suspension of arms sales to the warring parties and diplomatic pressure to end the conflict.<\/p>\n

“We must stop this war on children,” she said.<\/p>\n

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