A/HRC/33/38 strikes. The staff and patients managed to escape the hospital before the second air strike hit. According to Médecins sans frontières, the hospital was providing vital care to approximately 200,000 people in the region and its location coordinates had been shared with the parties to the conflict. 46. On 11 November 2015, Thawra hospital, one of the main health-care facilities in Taizz, was allegedly shelled by members of the Popular Committees (see figure IX), resulting in the killing of a civilian and the injury of eight others, including a medic, and also in structural damage. According to eyewitness accounts, three missiles were launched from Al-Harer hill, which at time of the incident was under the control of the Popular Committees. Figure IX Structural damage incurred by Thawra hospital in Taizz 47. On 2 December 2015, a clinic run by Médecins sans frontiers in Houban, Taizz, was hit by a coalition forces air strike, which killed one civilian and wounded nine others, including two children and one woman. On 5 January, an air strike by the coalition forces reportedly hit the Dar al-Noor children’s rehabilitation centre for the blind in Safia, a neighbourhood in Sana’a city, injuring three civilians, including children. Attacks on medical units may amount to war crimes and may constitute a violation of the right to health.16 16 See rule 25, on medical personnel, and rule 28, on medical units, of customary international humanitarian law described by ICRC, which provide a higher threshold of protection under international humanitarian law. 15