The UN urges the Saudi-led coalition to end a blockade of Yemen which has halted the flow of humanitarian supplies into the country, further threatening some seven million people facing famine-like conditions.
“If these channels, these lifelines, are not kept open it is catastrophic for people who are already in… the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA), tells reporters in Geneva.
Yemenis gather at the site of an air strike in the northern Yemeni governorate of Saada on November 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
Relief supplies into Yemen have been blocked since the coalition sealed off the country’s borders following a missile attack last weekend by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that was intercepted near the Riyadh airport. Humanitarian flights into Yemen have been on hold since Monday.
The coalition has also asked the UN to clear ships from the port of Hodeidah, which “is the backbone of the humanitarian operations in Yemen,” OCHA says in a statement.
— AFP
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