ICRC Plane Carrying ’23 Tons’ of Aid Arrives in Yemen’s Sanaa
Local Editor
A planeload of relief aid of the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] landed in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa on Monday, as Saudi Arabia continues to hit Yemen with deadly military airstrikes since March.
The plane carried 23 tons of medical and humanitarian assistance, an ICRC official said at the airport.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
Based on UN figures, over 3,261 people have been killed, 1,670 of whom were civilians in the Saudi onslaught.
Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United [UN] Nation mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.
