More than 140 killed in Yemen – Republic

AFP

This is the balance of the victims of the last day of new clashes in southern Yemen between Shiite militants from a group Huti troops loyal to President Abd al-Mansur al-Rabowi Hadiemu.

According to various sources, the victims of Monday’s battles are 53 people who died in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen.

Red Cross still can not refer to the area of ​​humanitarian assistance in fighting because – as explained – “logistical problems”. The humanitarian situation is getting worse by the hour in a country where the hospitals, in the absence of drugs, they are no longer able to dress the wounded, who are counted in the hundreds – writes AFP.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross about 48 tons of medicines and surgical kits waiting to be shipped to Yemen by sea or air. The organization is also prepared to send in need of tents, generators and equipment for the repair of damaged systems for water supply.

The situation is particularly serious in Aden, where residents are deprived of several districts of water and electricity.

Despite lasting from 12 days of air attacks led by Saudi Arabia Huti coalition movement continues its offensive in Aden, the last bastion of forces loyal to President Hadiemu. Benefiting from the support of Iran Huti longer control sane state capital, and the current conflict, which according to the UN were killed in the past two weeks, more than 500 people, threatens inclusions of the 25-millionth of Yemen in a humanitarian disaster. To prevent it, the International Red Cross appealed on Thursday for a 24-hour truce to allow the necessary supplies.

Both Saudi Arabia and Huti declare their readiness to discuss the stabilization of the political situation in Yemen, where in 2012 social revolt put an end to years of dictatorial rule of President Ali Abdullah Salah. But put forth by both parties are negotiating the conditions for them not to accept each other and neighboring Yemen, Oman, who did not join the coalition led by the Saudis, last week openly declared that the participants of the Yemeni conflict will lack any dialogue.