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the hospital building’s front was slightly damaged,697 the hospital also sustained
considerable damage to its generator, equipment, windows and doors, which rendered it
non-operational in the aftermath of the strike. The hospital could not reopen its doors to
patients, and tents were set up outside the next day to enable it to continue serving people
from the area. A pharmacy close to the hospital, where some of the casualties occurred, was
also reportedly698 destroyed. According to one of the hospital staff, 699 there were around 25
staff members inside the hospital at the time of the strike. Save the Children publicly 700
reported on one health worker being injured while caring for two children: “All people were
screaming and running out of the hospital. The structure of the hospital was totally
damaged inside. Our colleague lost two children. They were burned… I got injured in my
head and I was bleeding. I ran away from the hospital with my colleague to a safe place but
we found nothing that could help me stop the bleeding. It was the most difficult moments of
my life”.
439. Information gathered by the Group of Experts failed to ascertain any military
presence in the hospital, market, or surrounding area at the time of the attack. There was
also nothing to suggest that the site or nearby shop contained any weapons, though this
possibility was not considered disproven based upon the Group’s findings. 701 According to
sources, the casualties were all civilians, including seven children in total. The Group of
Experts was informed that the hospital had been “de-conflicted” and its coordinates were
known to the coalition.702
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Airstrikes on houses and a farm in Maghrabat Talan, Kushar, Hajjah, 9 April 2019
“They were shouting come and help us. We couldn’t help them, because the
reconnaissance plane was still roaming and we feared it would hit us again. I
was just across the farm. I could hear them scream. To lose your family in
697
See satellite imagery from UNITAR-UNOSAT below.
Confidential Sources on File.
699
Confidential Sources on File.
700 Save the Children, “Yemen hospital bombing: number of children killed rises to five”, 25 April
2019, available at https://yemen.savethechildren.net/news/yemen-hospital-bombing-number-childrenkilled-rises-five.
701 Confidential Sources on File.
702 Confidential Sources on File.
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