article_snippet.sent: On Saturday The UN called for a 24-hour humanitarian pause in the conflict to allow aid to reach people cut off by air strikes and to save the lives of 'streams of wounded'.
article_snippet.sent: We are still working on getting the plane to [the Yemeni capital] Sanaa.
article_snippet.sent: It's a bit difficult with the logistics because there are not that many companies or cargo planes willing to fly into a conflict zone,' said Marie Claire Feghali, a Red Cross spokesperson.
article_snippet.sent: The ICRC is also trying to get staff by boat from Djibouti to Aden, but fighting has complicated efforts.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier today in Riyadh, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said arrangements had been made for at least one Red Cross aid delivery yesterday morning, but the ICRC - which deploys 300 aid workers to the Arab peninsula's poorest country - had pulled out of the arrangement. '
article_snippet.sent: There was a trip fixed for the ICRC - which deploys 300 aid workers to the Arab peninsula's poorest country - at nine this morning ...
article_snippet.sent: the ICRC - which deploys 300 aid workers to the Arab peninsula's poorest country - informed us, after the time was set, of a request to delay the flight,' Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri told reporters yesterday, adding that this was because the company from which the ICRC - which deploys 300 aid workers to the Arab peninsula's poorest country - had chartered plane could not fly to Yemen.
article_snippet.sent: Running away: Yemenis flee from the international airport neighborhood in the capital Sanaa .
article_snippet.sent: Nevertheless, food, water and electricity shortages have mounted across the city, where combat has shut ports and cut land routes from the city. '