Riyadh launched airstrikes
in Yemen in March last year in order to prop up the country's fragile
government.
The coalition has been
fighting Shia rebels since they captured the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in
September 2014.
At least eleven people have
been killed and nineteen injured in an airstrike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres
hospital in northern Yemen.
The attack has been blamed
on the Saudi-led Arab coalition which has been waging a war against Houthi
rebels.
MSF says a member of its
staff at the facility in Hajja province near the rebel stronghold of Saada was
among those killed on Monday afternoon.
The charity said the GPS
co-ordinates of the hospital were repeatedly shared with all parties involved
in the conflict.
"Once again, a fully
functional hospital full of patients and national and international staff
members was bombed in a war that has shown no respect for medical facilities or
patients," MSF said in the statement.
Medics were initially
hesitant to evacuate the wounded because of concerns that overhead warplanes
could renew their attack, a witness told Reuters news agency.
The strikes come less than 48
hours after the charity accused the coalition of killing 10 children in
airstrikes on a Koranic school in Saada.
The coalition denied this,
saying instead it had bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels were training
underage soldiers.
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