Shocking: Shutting down Yemen's airport, thousands of people die from a lack of outside aid (Photo)

The rights group joined 14 other helpful organisations that urged the warring parties in Yemen to reopen the country's main airport Wednesday, saying the one-year closure of the airport prevented the flow of aid and prevented thousands of patients from being carried abroad for medical assistance.

The ban on access through Yemen's airport has caused thousands of Yemen to die”, said Mutasim Hamdan, director of the QKR in Yemen.

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The resolution is destructive. Thousands of women, men and children who could have been saved, lost their lives”, he said.

Sanaão International Airport closed on August 9th of last year “leaving many jamenas without safe means of transport in or out of the country”, the NRC said.

Citing UN figures, The QKR estimated that 7,000 Genens went out of Sanaas every year for medical treatment before the conflict began.

Now, the number of people needing health care to save their lives is around 20,000, said “Al Jazeera”, Perscope broadcast.

The QKR told Muhammad's story, whose father needed urgent treatment abroad, but he died after traveling for more than 24 hours via the road to Seiyu Airport in southern Yemen.

The former said it was dangerous for him to travel all the way and he could die on the street, but this was our only option”, Muhammad was quoted as saying in the NRC statement.

We had to cross many checkpoints, but the trip was fatal for my father”

In addition, about 10,000 people have been killed in violent attacks, and more than three million have been displaced since the beginning of the conflict, the UN said.

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition has been repeatedly accused of blocking aid to Yemen./Periscopi/