Geneva - The Red Cross Wednesday warned of a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in Yemen, where Saudi-led jets resumed air strikes after a brief halt in the four-week bombing campaign.
Robert Mardini, who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross operations in the Middle East, said food supplies were fast depleting, hospitals and health centres virtually non-functional and vital medicines were unavailable.
"The humanitarian situation is nothing short of catastrophic," said Mardini, who arrived in Geneva Wednesday from Yemen's capital Sanaa.
"Sanaa has had no electricity for nine entire days," he said, adding that the situation was far worse in the rest of the country.
"The country is almost living on its reserves.. Fuel supplies have reached zero levels," he said, adding that there was an acute shortage of food and that food prices had soared 20 percent since the bombings began a month ago.
AFP
