29 Mar 2024
Thursday 30 July 2015 - 18:54
Story Code : 174102

Yemen blockade kiling civilians: MSF

An international medical organization has voiced concernabout the humanitarian situation in Yemen, saying the Saudi blockade ofthe impoverished state is killing as many civilians as the countrys Saudi-led crisis.

Joanne Liu, the president of Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) orDoctors Without Borders, made the remarks in a telephone interview with AFP from Yemen's capital city of Sanaa on Thursday.

Liu said the Saudi-imposed restrictions on the delivery of aid to Yemenis "killing as (many people as) the current conflict,stressingthe need for ways to get supplies to come in, in a safe way, and people can get their medicine and not die" of easily treatable diseases.

Last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also expressed concerns over the plight of civilians in Yemen as Saudi Arabia continues it deadly air raids against the war-wracked country.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Vendors try to salvage goods from under the rubble of their shops following an airstrike by Saudi Arabia on the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, July 20, 2015. ( AFP)[/caption]

On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen without a UN mandate in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a closeally of Riyadh. The Al Saud regime also imposed an aerial and naval blockade on neighboring Yemen.

The country is also the scene of clashes between the Yemeni army and popular committees, loyal to Houthi fighters, on the one side and Saudi-backed militants on the other.

Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, said recentlythat 1,859 civilians were among the total of 3,984 people killed in Yemen until July 19. Local Yemeni sources, however, put the fatality figure at much higher.

By Press TV
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