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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Monday that Saudi-led coalition airstrikes have continued “unabated” to target civilians.
“It is clear in the open flouting of international humanitarian law, in the bandying about of terms such as "collateral damage," and in the negligence with which strikes on civilian sites are conducted,” Jaume Rado, MSF head of mission in Yemen, gave the account.
Rado stressed that “the number of displaced is 3.65 million and growing, while the capacity of the population to cope with such displacement is diminishing.”
According to MSF’s Rado, “there are increasing calls for more funding for the humanitarian response. And more funding is needed. But this is not enough.”
“Humanitarian agencies must be able to bring that aid to those who need it without risk of harm, instead of working in diminishing areas farther and farther from the displaced,” confirmed. “Such funding, without real change from the participants in the conflict, will not end the bloodshed, will not compensate for the thousands of lost Yemeni lives, and will not provide the answers and the solutions that our patients so desperately need.”
The head of MSF’s mission in Yemen called on the international humanitarian community to act. “It is time to do and say more. History will judge all of us, as Yemenis are already doing.”
Source: Yemenwatch.net
