Iran’s Red Crescent will send a ship carrying 2,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Yemen, official media said Thursday, following weeks of brutal US-backed Saudi aggression.

Iran's Red Crescent will send a ship carrying 2,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Yemen, official media said Thursday, following weeks of brutal US-backed Saudi aggression.

Officials at the Iranian Red Crescent have informed their Saudi counterparts by fax of the planned shipment, the IRNA news agency said quoting the organization’s secretary general Ali Asghar Ahmadi.

The Iranian vessel is expected to leave on Saturday and take about 10 days to reach Yemen, Ahmadi said.

Members of the Iranian Red Crescent will also be sent "to help the Yemeni people," he added.

Earlier, Saudi fighter jets intercepted an Iranian airplane carrying humanitarian aid and medicine as well as the injured Yemenis, who had been treated in Iran, and prevented it from entering the Yemeni airspace.