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The deputy director of the Iranian Red Crescent Society [IRCS] for international and humanitarian affairs announced on Monday that a cargo of medical aid from the Islamic Republic for the war-hit people of Yemen has arrived in the impoverished country.

Speaking to Tasnim News Agency on Monday, Mohammad-Shahabeddin Mohammadi Araqi said that the humanitarian cargo has been delivered to the Yemeni side in Hodeida port.

Following the move, he said, the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen expressed in a letter its gratitude to the IRCS for sending the medical cargo.

He further said that the Yemeni interior ministry and the country’s Red Crescent Society have also thanked the Islamic Republic for the 107-ton cargo of medical supplies.

In May, Iran had dispatched 2,500 tons of food and medical supplies for Yemenis via Djibouti, where the United Nations [UN] oversees humanitarian deliveries.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression on Yemen by carrying out airstrikes against the country since March 26 in an attempt to restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].

More than 5400 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the US-led Saudi aggression against Yemen so far, tasnim news reported. 

The Saudi-led aerial strikes have also targeted 61 hospitals and 13 ambulances.