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The International Committee of the Red Cross welcomed the evacuation of a number of Yemeni children and their families, who were suffering from conditions that cannot be treated inside the war-battered Arab country, from the capital Sana’a.
“We hope that this step will be followed by many similar ones to respond to the tremendous health needs in Yemen,” the ICRC said in a Twitter post.
According to a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Sana'a, sixteen passengers left on the first flight to Amman in Jordan after 18 months of negotiations to arrange the mission.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Ansarullah movement.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past nearly five years.
The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
