Coalition stopping Red
Cross delivering medical aid in Yemen: spokeswoman
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[March 31, 2015]
GENEVA (Reuters) - Members of the
Saudi-led coalition conducting air strikes in Yemen are preventing a Red
Cross plane from delivering medical supplies in Sanaa, an ICRC
spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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In a statement, the independent aid agency "called for the urgent
removal of obstacles to the delivery to Yemen of vital medical
supplies needed to treat casualties from a week of deadly clashes
and air strikes".
"We still don't have the permission from coalition members," ICRC
spokeswoman Sitara Jabeen told Reuters in Geneva, declining to
specify which coalition authorities were responsible for the
hold-up.
The aircraft, carrying enough medical supplies to treat from 700 to
1,000 wounded, is still in Djibouti, she said. It is due to fly to
Amman, Jordan to load supplies from an ICRC warehouse before flying
to Sanaa, once guarantees are received.
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"So far efforts to negotiate the safe arrival of the plane have not
been successful," the statement said, adding that supplies for
treating the war wounded are running low at hospitals across Yemen.
For six days, a Saudi-led coalition has bombed Iran-allied Houthi
fighters and army units fighting against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour
Hadi, whose last bastion in the southern city of Aden was heavily
shelled overnight.
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"An ICRC surgical team is due to arrive shortly in the southern city
of Aden, where casualty numbers have been greatest," the ICRC said.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Stonestreet)
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