US-Saudi coalition targeted detention center in Yemen: IRC

The International Red Cross refuted the US-Saudi coalition on Yemen that it targeted a drones and missiles stores, stressing that the targeted place is a detention center that Red Cross teams were regularly inspecting, pointing out that 40 prisoners are receiving treatment in hospitals.

The head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, Franz Rauchen Stein, said the mission estimated that more than 100 people had been killed in the bombing of the three-prison prison.

While the Saudi-UAE alliance talked about targeting a drones and missiles warehouse, Rauchen Stein said the target was a detention center regularly visited by Red Cross teams, noting that 40 prisoners were being treated in hospitals.

The ICRC rushed to the scene in the city of Dhamar with medical teams and hundreds of body bags.

“The location that was hit has been visited by ICRC before,” said Franz Rauchenstein, the committee’s head of delegation for Yemen. “It’s a college building that has been empty and has been used as a detention facility for a while. What is most disturbing is that [the attack was] on a prison. To hit such a building is shocking and saddening – prisoners are protected by international law.”

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