Channel News AsiaGENEVA: Members of the Saudi-led coalition conducting air strikes in Yemen are preventing a Red Cross plane from delivering urgent medical supplies in Sanaa, an ICRC spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the independent aid agency “called for the urgent removal of obstacles to the delivery to Yemen of vital medical supplies needed to treat casualties from a week of deadly clashes and air strikes”.
“We still don’t have the permission from coalition members,” ICRC spokeswoman Sitara Jabeen told Reuters in Geneva, declining to specify which coalition authorities were responsible for blocking the plane, which was still in Djibouti.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Stonestreet)
– Reuters
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This is by no means an accident. Remember, for example (and there’s many), in Katrina, they turned back trucks that had ice in it? I could think of many examples of turning away aid, and I believe it’s on purpose.