GENEVA: The UN are assessing possible damage to grain stores it manages near the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah that were hit by gunfire on Thursday, a spokesman said.
“Any damage to humanitarian food stocks, whether deliberately targeted or as collateral damage, is unacceptable when millions in Yemen continue to suffer from crippling shortages of food,” the World Food Programme’s senior spokesman Herve Verhoosel told a press briefing in Geneva.
Hodeidah, which has become the focus of a four-year war between Saudi-backed government forces and the Iran-aligned Houthi group, is the entry point for most of Yemen’s humanitarian aid and commercial imports.
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UN assessing damage at Yemeni port city grain mills
UN assessing damage at Yemeni port city grain mills
- “Any damage to humanitarian food stocks, whether deliberately targeted or as collateral damage, is unacceptable,” the World Food Programme said
- Hodeidah is the entry point for most of Yemen’s humanitarian aid and commercial imports
Turkiye’s Erdogan tells UK’s Starmer more can be done for dialogue on Iran
- Prolonged interventions could cause great damage to regional and global stability
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer by phone that there are still things that can be done to build a ground for dialogue on Iran, and that Turkiye’s peace-focused efforts are ongoing.
The Turkish presidency statement on Saturday cited Erdogan as saying that Turkiye was monitoring the process that began with the attacks on Iran, and that prolonged interventions could cause great damage to regional and global stability.
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