"The U.S.-backed coalition has bombed nearly 100 hospitals throughout Yemen"

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A special thank you to eridani for posting this earlier. I've chosen to highlight the number of medical facilities bombed since March of this year as it exemplifies that what is happening is not random errors but a consistent effort to target these types of facilities in violation of international law.

Saudi-Led Coalition 'Deliberately' Targeting Hospitals in Yemen: ICRC

With a stockpile of Western arms, the Saudi siege of Yemen has hit nearly 100 healthcare facilities in war-torn country since March

by Nadia Prupis - Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen has repeatedly targeted and attacked hospitals and clinics, an appalling trend that "disrespects the neutrality of health facilities" in war, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday.

The U.S.-backed coalition has bombed nearly 100 hospitals throughout Yemen since March, with the most recent airstrike hitting a clinic on Sunday in the southern city of Taiz—one the country's most populous regions, which has been under heavy fire for months. The shelling of Al-Thawra hospital in the south came just weeks after a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic was hit in Haydan, in the north.

"Al-Thawra hospital, one of the main health care facilities in Taiz which is providing treatment for about 50 injured people every day was reportedly shelled several times on Sunday. The shelling endangered the lives of patients and staff on site," Kedir Awol Omar, the deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen, said on Tuesday. "The neutrality of healthcare facilities and staff is not being respected. Health facilities are deliberately attacked and surgical and medical supplies are also being blocked from reaching hospitals in areas under siege."

Airstrikes on medical clinics are "a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law," ICRC said.

Full article:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/11/11/saudi-led-coalition-deliberately-targeting-hospitals-yemen-icrc

[GoneFishin]

1. 100 hospitals is no mistake. Some sick fuck said "Hey, let's bomb hospitals!" And other sick fucks

went along with it.

U.S. taxpayer money being used to spread peace, freedom, and democracy.

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2. It is sickening. President Obama needs to stop this shit and put funds into rebuilding medical

facilities in Yemen. American foreign policy should not be representative of barbaric behavior comparable to the countries we vilify.

America is coordinating these attacks and the people doing this know exactly what is being done. There is no excuse for this what so ever. It needs to stop ASAP.

[GoneFishin]

3. Some sick acts can be dismissed as mistakes. But this really seems like a blatant war crime.

And somewhere there is an individual or group of individuals that made a decision to do it.

Probably some lowly Private. The poor bastard.

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4. Yes. Not sure who made the decisions but this madness needs to end. This appears to be war crimes

should be considered as such for investigation. And not "let's have an investigation" after another 20 or 30 hospitals are bombed but NOW.