“I hear from my colleagues that there are still many bodies at the site of the airstrike and that many people are missing,” said Ahmed Mahat, MSF mission chief in Yemen. “It is impossible to determine how many people have been killed. It appears to be a terrible act of violence.”
The Houthis accuse the Saudi coalition deliberately bombing civilian targets. “We consider this a war crime. The world should take responsibility at this critical moment in history,” Houthi health minister al-Motawakel told AP news agency.
The Saudi coalition says the prison was not on a list of prohibited targets and thus cannot have violated the Geneva Conventions. The coalition says it will come out with “the facts and details, and the misinformation of the Houthis” about the bombed location. The UN calls for a transparent investigation.
Yemen has become divided among different groups after years of struggle. The Yemeni government controls most of the area, but this is mostly uninhabited desert with no oil, gas or other natural resources:
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