Ethiopian airstrikes forced a U.N. humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country’s Tigray region, two aid workers said. If deliberate, the action would be an escalation of Ethiopia's intimidation tactics against aid workers.
If deliberate, the action would be a sharp escalation in the intimidation tactics that Ethiopian authorities have used against aid workers amid an intensifying, year-long war in Tigray.
Ethiopia’s government in recent months has accused some humanitarian groups of supporting the Tigray forces, and last month it expelled seven U.N. officials while accusing them without evidence of falsely inflating the scale of the Tigray crisis. Authorities also have subjected humanitarian workers on U.N. flights to intrusive searches while imposing what the U.N. has called a “de facto humanitarian blockade” on the region of some 6 million people.
Spokesmen for the Tigray forces have denied that sites targeted earlier this week were used in relation to the fighting. Health workers and other residents have said at least three children have been killed and more than a dozen people injured.
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