Safety fears for aid workers mount amid ongoing airstrikes in Yemen

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The first planes loaded with medical supplies and humanitarian aid landed in the embattled Yemeni capital of Sanaa, more than two weeks after Saudi-led airstrikes began in the country.

However, the International Committee of the Red Cross has raised concerns that aid workers are being targeted in Yemen.

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"We're hearing disturbing reports. Health-care facilities have been damaged as a result of collateral damage. Ambulances are being stolen in Aden and health-care workers targeted, which is unacceptable," Cedric Schweizer, who leads the ICRC team in Yemen, said in a statement released by the group. Read more...

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