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Saudi-led coalition airstrikes have hit a Yemeni hospital run by Doctors without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres [MSF], wrecking the facility and wounding several people, the director of the international humanitarian aid organization said on Tuesday.

"MSF facility in Saada [north] Yemen was hit by several airstrikes last night with patients and staff inside the facility," MSF said in a tweet on Tuesday.

The hospital’s director Doctor Ali Mughli was quoted as saying that several people were injured in the attack.

"The air raids resulted in the destruction of the entire hospital with all that was inside - devices and medical supplies - and the moderate wounding of several people", Mughli said.

Yemen’s state news agency Saba said that other Saudi-led airstrikes hit a nearby girls school and damaged several civilian homes.

The bombing of the MSF hospital is the latest to strike civilians in the Saudi-led seventh-month air aggression against Yemen. On 28 September, a Saudi-led aerial bombing on a wedding party in Yemen killed at least 131 people. Some days later, the United Nations [UN] confirmed that the deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike predominantly killed women and children.

The Saudi-led aggression has been receiving much criticism by human rights groups over civilian deaths lately. Amnesty International has called for an arms embargo on coalition states, citing repeated bombing of Yemeni civilians. 

The United States and Britain are supporting the coalition with intelligence and both are long-time arms suppliers to their Gulf Arab allies.

Over 2,300 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last six months, according to the UN.