UNICEF Sends Tons of Medical Aid to Yemen
Local Editor
Two planes belonging to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) loaded with tons of medical aid arrived on Tuesday in Sana’a International Airport.
UNICEF spokesman in Yemen, Mohammad al-Asadi said that the aid shipments contain 7.532 tons of vaccines for children and over 37 tons of medical assistances and supplies.
Yemen has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The UN says famine looms as over half the population, or 14.4 million people, face hunger and not even its hospitals are spared.
The Arab world’s most impoverished country has been under military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March last year. The Saudi military strikes were launched in a failed effort to undermine the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring the former fugitive president back to power.
More than 8,300 people, among them 2,236 children, have been killed and 16,015 others injured since the start of the aggression. The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
