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Yemeni children and their guardians arrive after a United Nations medical evacuation from Sanaa at Queen Alia International Airport, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on February 3, 2020, in what the UN hopes will be the first of many "mercy flights". Seven young patients and their relatives flew out of Sanaa airport, which a Saudi-led coalition supporting the embattled Yemeni government has kept closed to commercial flights since 2016. The UN-marked plane later landed in the Jordanian capital Amman, wh
February 4th, 2020 - 07:16 GMT

Mercy Flights: Yemeni Sick Kids Evacuated From Rebel-Held Sanaa

Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be the first of more mercy flights. Seven young patients and their relatives flew out of Sanaa airport, which has been closed to commercial flights since 2016, aboard a UN-marked plane bound for Amman. "This is the first of what we hope will be a number of ...
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