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Deadly Hospital Bombing Highlights an Escalating War in Yemen

Thought Leader: Private: Mark Mazzetti
August 24, 2016
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By Mark Mazzetti and Shuaib Almosawa (original source New York Times) 

“It was a frenetic Monday afternoon at Abs Hospital in northern Yemen, with doctors and nurses busily shuttling among the patients and a maternity ward filled with 25 women expecting to give birth.

The bomb from the Saudi jet dropped into the middle of the hospital compound, a facility run by Doctors Without Borders, landing between the emergency room and a triage area for new patients. Nineteen people were killed, dozens were injured, and a humanitarian group that for decades has braved war zones across the globe decided it had had enough.”

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