Humanitarian workers in Yemen’s third city, Taez were attacked on Wednesday by unknown gunmen, the Emirates Red Crescent said.
The attack targeted ERC medical staff who were working in a mobile healthcare clinic in the city.
Information about casualties and those responsible for the attack is yet to be made available.
Aid workers were previously targeted with threats and intimidation in the war-torn country, especially in areas controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
"The UAE strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist shooting attack targeting Emirates Red Crescent medical staff," Abu Dhabi's foreign ministry said.
The targeting of humanitarian workers is a “flagrant violation of international norms and conventions, which provide special protection for aid and rescue workers”, it said.
The ministry said it rejected “all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining security and stability in contravention of religious and human values and principles”.
The ERC denounced the attack and said targeting humanitarian workers was a breach of international treaties and covenants.
The organisation "expressed its condemnation and deep regret for the terrorist act”, it said on Twitter.
Houthis control western parts of Yemen and the north, including the capital, Sanaa. The rebels have besieged Taez, a city of 500,000 inhabitants, for more than five years.
The city is under the control of the internationally recognised government.
Earlier this year, two members of the ERC were found dead in Aden after being kidnapped.
The bodies of Ahmed Fuad, 42, co-ordinator of the ERC's relief operations, and his colleague Mohammed Tariq, 36, were found at a deserted building in Kabuta city in north-east Aden.
International humanitarian agencies called for the protection of aid workers because attacking them could jeopardise efforts to assist millions of civilians caught in what is already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemen’s five-year conflict has killed more than 100,000 and created a large-scale humanitarian crisis.
Nearly 80 per cent of the population lives off humanitarian aid while millions are on the brink of starvation, leaving them highly vulnerable to disease, including the coronavirus pandemic.
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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