A/HRC/42/CRP.1 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 (e) 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. 698 109

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