Almotamar Net - The International Relief Organisation IRO in Saada, Yemen has complained of difficulties facing it in helping the sons of Saada due to the Houthi rebels continuation in their attacks on its workers and convoys, confirming their kidnapping of 15 of its workers, the organisation thus reveals inhumane practices by the Houthis against whom they allege they are waging war for them.

Wednesday, 26-August-2009
Almotamar.net - The International Relief Organisation IRO in Saada, Yemen has complained of difficulties facing it in helping the sons of Saada due to the Houthi rebels continuation in their attacks on its workers and convoys, confirming their kidnapping of 15 of its workers, the organisation thus reveals inhumane practices by the Houthis against whom they allege they are waging war for them.

The UN Humanitarian News Agency has affirmed in its report on Tuesday that relief organisations face increasing difficulties in assisting the civilians in Saada province in the wake of confrontations renewal between the army and the Houthi rebels.

The representative of the IRO in Yemen mentioned that Saada was seeing active armed confrontations and suffering from a very changing situation and because of that the programme finds itself forced to conduct a cautious balance between security of its workers on the one hand and its task in assisting the victims on the other hand.

Confrontations in Saada had broken out anew on 12 August and the air raids of the government forces on strongholds of the Houthis in Saada compelled many of the civilians to escape to neighbouring provinces. According to UN organizations the confrontations caused the migration of about 150 thousand persons inside the provinces of Saada, Al-Jawf, Haja and Amran.

According to Abbas Zbara, the secretary general of the Yemeni Red Crescent society, the Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross are the only organisations presently supervise on migrants camps in Saada as well as some international non-governmental organisations working in the region but they find utmost difficulties in performing their job because of lack of security on the roads inside and outside Saada.

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