Red Cross reaches besieged city Yemen

- An aid convoy of the Red Cross on Saturday for the first time in months reached the disputed Yemeni city of Taiz. The aid organization speaks of a breakthrough.

The aid workers delivered three tons of drugs off at four hospitals in Taiz where injuries are treated.,, We hope the operation is today followed by many others, '' said Antoine Grand of the Red Cross in Yemen.

For Taiz, one of the foci of the civil war in Yemen is already months fiercely fought by local militias and the Shiite Houthi rebels. The latter prevented according to residents of the city relief supplies. The approximately 200 000 inhabitants would sit serious shy to health care, food and water.