UN condemns bombing of Mukha hospital without reference to Houthi responsibility

The United Nations has avoided pointing out that Houthi coup militias have been responsible for the twin attack by ballistic missiles and drones on a hospital run by MSF International in the western Yemeni city of Mukha, while Yemeni joint forces are conducting a major military operation towards militia positions. Ballistic missiles and recent Houthi drones are believed to have been fired at Mokha, while militias continued to breach the truce and mobilize heavily towards the Sahel fronts.

In detail, the Office of the Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator merely described the attack as “unacceptable” and ignored the reference to the Houthi responsibility for the crime.

The office, in a statement issued yesterday, the details of the attack under the title: «strikes damage to a major hospital serving hundreds of thousands of Yemenis».

"Initial reports indicate that the main hospital, serving hundreds of thousands of Yemenis in Mukha, Taiz governorate on the west coast of Yemen, has been severely damaged by the November 6 strikes," the statement said, without mentioning who carried out the strikes.

He added that the strikes "forced the hospital, run by (MSF) to close its doors, and destroyed the large warehouse, which contains medical supplies."

Although the attack amounted to a war crime under international law, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, merely recalled that “medical facilities are protected under international humanitarian law”.

Hundreds of thousands of people along the West Coast, in need of emergency assistance, will be denied hundreds of people who need life-saving surgical interventions every month to get the help they need because of these strikes.

“This is shocking, and ultimately unacceptable,” she said.

The hospital, which has been hit, is the only facility providing emergency medical, obstetric and surgical care to half a million people along the west coast.

Military sources confirmed that the air defense system, belonging to the Coalition to support the legitimacy, was able to shoot down three rockets, while the fourth hit a warehouse of supply in the city of Mokha.

According to these sources, a fire devoured a large part of the MSF hospital in the city of Mokha, as a Houthi drone crashed nearby.

This comes at a time when Houthi militias continued breaches of the UN truce and ceasefire, and continued to target joint sites in several areas, the most violent focus in the Directorate of Hays south of the province, where the joint forces were able to repel a large attack on their positions Thursday evening.

According to military sources in the brigade 11 giants that the militias suffered dozens of dead and wounded, in a failed attack launched on the joint sites west of the Directorate of Hays, which used various types of heavy and medium weapons, focused towards the village of Albilil and inflicted heavy losses, and forced the rest of them to flee towards Nakil Suqm , The immigration and triangle areas.

The sources pointed out that the attack coincided with a similar attack by the Houthis on the joint sites, towards the areas of Al-Faza and Jabaliya Directorate of Tahita, and Al-Jah area in the Directorate of Beit al-Faqih, warning of the collapse of the peace agreement in Hodeidah, as a result of the Houthi escalation and high pace during the past few days.

On the other hand, military sources on the west coast revealed intensive movements of Houthi militia elements around the northern and eastern areas of Hodeidah governorate, which witnessed the deployment of checkpoints and military vehicles in the valleys and dirt roads at the entrances of the wadis, which descend from the governorates of Rima, Hajjah, Mahwit, Dhamar and North. Taiz is heading towards the West Coast areas, where militias are taking corridors of reinforcements and weapons from Amran, Saada and Sana'a.

The sources confirmed that the militia movements warn of launching large-scale military operations on the joint sites, and towards the contact areas in the city of Hodeidah and southern areas of the province, in order to thwart the peace agreement and to evade the implementation of the rest of the Swedish agreement on Hodeidah, which provides for the deployment of monitoring committees to stop the launch in all areas, As well as opening roads and corridors and demining, which the militias planted to secure the passage of humanitarian aid, which is evaded by the militias.

The sources pointed out that the militias are transporting weapons and heavy military equipment, including missiles and aviation march through Almarwah and Salif and Munira located north of Hodeidah, and others from the side of Wadi Siham and Nakhla and Almarawa and sloping Dhamar, Mahwit and Ib towards the west coast.

On the other hand, field sources in eastern Mukha confirmed that the joint forces started, last night, a large-scale military operation towards the militia positions in Al-Barah city of the Muqabna district, west of Taiz governorate, and towards Al-Kadha area of ​​Al-Maafir district near Al-Barah. Ballistic missiles and recent Houthi drones were fired at Mukha from within the framework of securing the liberated areas on the western coastline of Yemen, extending from Bab al-Mandab in the south to Hodeidah city in the north.

According to the sources, dozens of Houthi elements were killed and others injured in the ongoing operation along several axes extending over a distance of 10 kilometers, aimed at destroying the heavy weapons stores of the militias, which were recently pushed to the perimeter of the liberated areas on the west coast, especially east of Mukha city. Al-Barah, which includes several militias and military sites, is connected by a supply route from Al-Barah to Ibb governorate.

The sources confirmed the destruction of a weapons store and rocket launchers, and other special aviation aviation, all Iranian-made weapons, were sent to the region, and were used in operations that threaten international navigation in Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea, pointing out that the process continues, until securing the areas where the militias are based Balbrh And the parties of the Waziya and Mqabnah, all the way to the toil.