UN Demands Aid Access to Besieged Yemeni City of Taiz
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Geneva, 20 Oct (EFE).- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed his alarm this Tuesday about the siege imposed on the Yemeni city of Taiz by the Houthi insurgents, and called on them to immediately allow humanitarian aid to arrive at the site "to prevent a catastrophe." [...] The entry The UN expresses concern about the siege of Taiz and asks for humanitarian access was first published in HolaNews.
GENEVA - The United Nations on Tuesday called on Yemen's warring parties to allow aid deliveries to the city of Taiz, the country's third largest city cut off from the port city of Aden, home to the internationally recognized government, by pro-Iranian Houthi rebels in early October, AFP reported.
The blockade of the only supply route linking the Yemeni city of Taizz to the port of Aden has caused food prices to soar and shortages of basic necessities, and the UN is urging warring parties to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the city.
UN demands aid access to besieged Taiz
The United Nations (UN) insisted Tuesday that aid must immediately be allowed to enter Yemen’s third-biggest city Taiz, besieged by pro-Iran Houthi fighters blocking all supplies. “Humanitarian aid must be immediately allowed to enter the city and its passage must be facilitated,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement, warning that civilians were being placed “at grave risk.” The post UN demands aid access to besieged Taiz appeared fir…
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