'As if bullets, bombs and cholera did not kill enough people, the airport closure is condemning thousands more to a premature death.' Mohammed Abdi, the Norwegian Refugee Council's director in Yemen
The Sanaa airport's three-year closure has amounted to a"death sentence" for many sick Yemenis, say the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE.The Saudi-led coalition's closure of the airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, has prevented thousands of sick civilians from travelling abroad for urgent medical treatment, two international aid groups said in a joint statement.
The Saudi-led coalition, backing Yemen's internationally recognised government, has been at war with the rebels, known as Houthis, since 2015, and has imposed a blockade on ports that supply Houthi-controlled areas. The Iran-backed Houthis overran Sanaa in 2014, prompting the Saudi-led coalition to intervene the following year to try to restore the government to power.The UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that at least 14 civilians were killed in a July 26 attack on a market in the northern province of Sadaa, which borders Saudi Arabia. And in the past 10 days, at least 19 civilians died from fighting in different parts of Yemen.
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