Originally Posted by
Cazalet33
It's still a war crime to bomb or shell a known hospital.
Willfully and deliberately? Yes, in a war. By the way, if it is known to you and me as a hospital it is utterly irrelevant. As for the fellow with the artillery tube or the plane, then he doesn't know it's a hospital, you have to work your way up the chain of command to find out who did, and how that information got into (or failed to get into) a call for fire. That's where the transparency becomes a concern for finding out how this went down. Your knee jerk assumption isn't any better than the fast mouth from MSF.
Think about this, Caz: if a hospital gets bombed in sometime that is not a war, it's something like arson.
That it was willful is not established, though in this case (as I noted above) the follow up attack points in that direction. That's where my betting money is.
One can also argue that a sufficient state of belligerency has been established to classify what is going on in Yemen as war.