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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) condemned the years-long blockade of Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport by the Saudi-led coalition.
"For the last three years the Sana’a airport closure has been a death sentence for thousands of women, children and men who died prematurely because they were unable to get treatment abroad,” NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland said in a statement
The Saudi-led coalition that has bombing Yemen since 2015 announced on Tuesday that there will be flights, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, to transport patients from the capital Sanaa to countries where they can receive appropriate treatment for their cases.
However, Egeland stated that the move “came too late”, stressing “the blockade must end: restrictions on humanitarian goods, commercial imports of food, fuel and medicine, and the closure of sea ports, have thrown Yemen down a dark valley of intolerable suffering.”
“Over 10 million people are on the brink of starvation. The conflict needs to end so that millions of families can start rebuilding their lives," the statement concluded.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
