MSF delivers medical aid to Yemen’s besieged Taiz

Doctors Without Borders said it delivered Sunday medical supplies to areas besieged by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen’s flashpoint Taiz city for the first time in months, according to Gulf News.

The group known by its French acronym MSF said two trucks “full of essential medical supplies” entered the southwestern city in the first such operation in five months.

The last time a “significant” shipment of medical supplies reached the city was in August, it said.

“We’re grateful that we managed to deliver the medical supplies to the hospitals,” said in a statement Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Yemen.

The Paris-based medical humanitarian organisation said treating the wounded and surgery had at times been suspended over the past five months due to lack of supplies.