Alwaght - More civilians are
being killed in the Saudi aggression on Yemen, as the Red Cross is accusing
Riyadh of blocking three shipments of aid to Yemen.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Saturday
three shipments of aid and medical staff it is trying to send to Yemen were
still blocked, despite appeals to the Saudi-led military coalition which
controls Yemeni air space and ports, Reuters news agency reported.
The ICRC is seeking security guarantees for two planes to Sanaa,
one with medical supplies for up to 1,000 wounded people and a second with 30
tons of medical and water sanitation supplies, as well as a boat to take a
surgical team to Aden.
The aid organization on Tuesday accused the Saudi-led coalition,
which is waging a 10-day-old campaign of air strikes on Yemen, of preventing
aid deliveries.
"Our supplies are still blocked," spokeswoman Sitara
Jabeen said. "The situation is getting worse, every passing hour people
are dying in Yemen and we need to bring this in urgently".
She was speaking ahead of a United Nations Security Council
meeting called by Russia to discuss a humanitarian pause in the air strikes.
Meanwhile, sources told al-Manar that at least nine civilians of
the same family, including six children, were martyred in a strike on Bani
Matar in the capital Sanaa.
Five other were wounded in the raid, including three children.
UN relief coordinator Valerie Amos said on Thursday 519 people
have been killed in the fighting in the past two weeks and nearly 1,700
wounded.
