UN demands aid access to besieged Yemen city Taiz

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The United Nations called for immediate humanitarian access to Taiz, Yemen, which has been encircled by Houthi fighters blocking the road to Aden. UN human rights chief Volker Türk said aid delivery into the besieged city must be facilitated.

The United Nations insisted Tuesday that aid must immediately be allowed to enter Yemen's Taiz, besieged by pro-Iran Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching the country's third-largest city. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, interim capital of the Saudi-backed, internationally-recognised government. "Humanitarian aid must be immediately allowed to enter the city and its passage must be facilitated," UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.