[VOA News] The United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
is calling for an immediate humanitarian pause to allow more life-saving aid to be brought into Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
by air and sea.
Johannes Van Der Klaauw, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, says basic services are collapsing and people are facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions as Arclight airstrikes and other armed actions have spread to 15 of the country's 22 governorates.
The world deliberative body says millions of people are at risk of physical injury or death because of the fighting and the lack of basic services, including health care, safe water and food.
The World Health Organization reports 648 people have been killed and 2,191 maimed. The WHO also warned of measles, meningitis and typhoid outbreaks.
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