Iran Warns of Dire Humanitarian Situation in Yemen

Rasa - Deputy Head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters for International Affairs Kazzem Qaribabadi warned of the dire and difficult conditions of the war-hit Yemeni people, saying that a humanitarian disaster is impending.

News ID: 425322

Date: 26 November 2016 - 17:45

RNA - "In Yemen, people are under aggressive attacks and are deprived of access to food, resources, shelter, water and emergency medical aid," Qaribabadi said, addressing the 9th forum of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on minority issues in Geneva on Friday.

He also touched the global threat of the ISIL and Takfiri terrorism to different communities, specially ethnic and religious minorities, and urged that those states sponsoring the terrorist group should account as complicity to ISIL crimes.

Qaribabadi also voiced deep concern over the remarks and xinophobic policies adopted by certain European leaders and statesmen who have sealed off their borders to Muslim immigrants.

Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a deadly war against Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to bring back the former Yemeni government to power and undermine the Ansarullah movement.

The impoverished Arab country is grappling with the scarcity of food supplies and outbreak of diseases amid Saudi Arabia’s atrocious airstrikes.

The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) says 7.4 million Yemeni children are in dire need of medical help, and 370,000 run the risk of severe acute malnutrition.

The war has left at least 12,000 civilians dead, according to a latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.

The US has also been providing logistic and surveillance support to the kingdom in the bloody military campaign.

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