Yemen civilians paying highest price for Saudi aggression: WHO
Innocent Yemeni people are paying the "highest price" for the deadly Saudi aggression against the country, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says.
“It is innocent civilians that pay the highest price,” the director general of the WHO, Margaret Chan, said in a Wednesday statement, stressing that more that 2,000 people have been killed and over 8,000 others have been injured due to the ongoing conflict in the country.
“The health and lives of millions of people are at risk,” Chan warned.
The UN official further warned about the dire medical situation in Yemen due to the Saudi airstrikes and ongoing conflict in the country, saying, “Almost 8.6 million people are in urgent need of medical help."
She also censured the deadly attacks on medical centers and staff in Yemen, saying the attacks are in contravention of the international humanitarian law.
“Health infrastructure continues to be hit, with attacks reported on hospitals and ambulances, a medical warehouse, an oxygen factory, and a blood transfusion center. Some health care workers were killed trying to save lives and more injured,” Chan added.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Saudi attack on a medical university in the western al-Hudaydah province left dozens dead.
The Saudi warplanes also targeted a medical center in the district of Haradh in the northern province of Hajjah. At least five staffers at the clinic suffered injuries in the attack.
Moreover, at least 100 people were killed and over 270 others sustained injuries in the Saudi aggression against the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Wednesday.
“This unnecessary loss of innocent lives cannot go on,” Chan urged, demanding, “The health system must be allowed to function unimpeded by the insecurity.
On March 26, Riyadh kicked off its deadly aggression against Yemen without a UN mandate and with the aim of restoring power to the Arab country’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, and weakening the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital Sana’a and some major provinces.
Yemen’s Freedom House Foundation says Saudi Arabia has killed at least 4,021 people, including 576 children and 261 women, and injured 7,017 others in its aggression against Yemen.
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