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Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF] said it delivered medical supplies on Sunday to besieged areas in Yemen’s flashpoint Taiz city for the first time in months.
The group also known as Doctors without Borders said two trucks "full of essential medical supplies" entered the southwestern city in the first such operation in five months.
The last time a "significant" shipment of medical supplies reached the city was in August, it said.
"We’re grateful that we managed to deliver the medical supplies to the hospitals," said in a statement Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Yemen.
The Paris-based medical humanitarian organization said treating the wounded and surgery had at times been suspended over the past five months due to lack of supplies.
"The checkpoints in combination with severe fighting in the area have severely hampered humanitarian access into this part of the city," it said of areas besieged by the Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries.
The 600,000 residents of Taiz have been in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
The situation has become so desperate that many residents have taken to treacherous mountain paths to bring in goods.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
