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UN Demands Saudi to Allow Journalists into Yemen

UN Demands Saudi to Allow Journalists into Yemen
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The United Nations is demanding that journalists be allowed into Yemen after the Saudi-led coalition refused to allow a plane carrying three BBC reporters to land.

UN Demands Saudi to Allow Journalists into Yemen

The journalists were on a UN aid flight that was supposed to go to the capital, Sanaa, on Tuesday but was grounded in Djibouti because the reporters were on board.

"Steps like this do not help. This has been a large, man-made humanitarian problem. The world needs to know and journalists need to have access," UN spokesman Farhan Haq said Wednesday.

He said incidents like the grounding of the flight explained why one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters was not getting enough attention from the international community.

Haq said the aid flight that was not allowed to fly Tuesday was given permission to land Wednesday in Yemen, but without the BBC reporters.

The Saudis reportedly told UN officials they could not guarantee the safety of the BBC crew.

The Saudi-led coalition controls the airspace over Yemen. It is carrying out an aggression both from the air and on the ground.

UN officials said 80 percent of Yemen's population is in desperate need of food, clean water and medical care. A cholera outbreak had killed more than 1,700 people since April, with more than 320,000 suspected cases.

UN refugee officials said they were "deeply shocked and saddened" by the latest reports of civilians martyred by an airstrike in Yemen's Taiz region.

At least 20 people were martyred in Tuesday's attack. Most were from the same family, and all were people who had been driven from their homes because of the fighting.

A brutal Saudi aggression, launched to reinstate former President Abd Rabuuh Mansour Hadi, had so far martyred more than 12,000 people.

The conflict had also left more than 17 million people in the country food-insecure, with some 6.8 million of them in need of immediate aid.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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