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Another plane slated to evacuate 24 critically ill Yemenis to Amman failed to take off from the capital Sana’a on Friday.
“It is unfortunate that today’s medical air bridge flight did not take off as planned for technical reasons, and will be rescheduled,” the World Heath Organization said in a Twitter post.
A first “mercy flight” evacuated seven children from Sana’a on Monday for medical treatment in the Jordanian capital.
A Saudi-led coalition has been supporting the former Yemeni regime since 2015 and launched a devastating campaign against Yemen. It has kept Sana’a airport closed to commercial flights since 2016.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi-led 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: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
