Aid
agencies began delivering help to desperate civilians on Wednesday as a
five-day humanitarian truce generally took hold in Yemen. The ceasefire began
at 11:00pm on Tuesday local time.
A ship
chartered by the UN World Food program (WFP), which had arrived in the Yemeni
port of Hodeidah on Saturday, began distributing its shipment of much-needed
fuel to areas across the country, AFP reported. WFP is to provide emergency
food rations to more than 750,000 people. A second vessel is ready to dock at
Hodeidah carrying additional fuel. The country has been suffering from severe
fuel shortages, grinding humanitarian operations to a halt.
The
director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen, Marie-Elisabeth Ingres,
told AFP that truce seemed to be holding and her group is going to take
advantage of it. A plane carrying medical aid and MSF personnel was expected to
arrive in Yemen late Wednesday, with a second aircraft set to follow on
Thursday.
File photo: The MV Amsterdam berthed at Hodeidah port, Yemen, with fuel for WFP (WFP MENA)
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