UNICEF representative Peter Hawkins said that we need to increase our steps. “I have been in Huda Maida for the past three days … I crossed the lower -area of the west, where people seek the streets, begging, and seek help.”
“They lost courage. However, we cannot lose courage.”
By providing information from Sana, UNICEF’s representative said that the economy, health care system and infrastructure of the country were destroyed due to human-infected disaster.
He expressed concern that even in the relatively low violence days, the conflict had serious consequences, especially for girls and children.
More than half of Yemen’s population, that is, about four million people are currently dependent on humanitarian assistance.
The Houthi fighters (Ansar Allah Party) in Yemen and the Saudi leadership are in the war between the government military supported by the war coalition forces. On March 27, Yamani President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi was evacuated from power.
After the fight continued for many years, the ceasefire agreed in April 2022 as a result of United’s mediation effort. Since then, military operations are still happening, though a large -scale ground military conflict has not begun.
In the challenging situations, UNICEF is providing health care and malnutrition treatment centers to life -sacrifice in Yemen, but only 25 percent of the amount required to promote relief is currently provided.
Risk of violence
In view of this, a senior UNICEF official has issued a warning that if donors do not get help, it will also be difficult to provide minimum service.
Earlier, Hans Grundberg, a special messenger of the Yemeni UN general secretary, told the March March Council that violent conflict is currently a break, but the risk of violence is increasing.
The United States has launched several attacks in the region controlled by the Houthi fighters in Yemen. These attacks have been revealed after the Houthi party targeted business ships in the Red Sea after a ceasefire in Gaza.
UNICEF representative Peter Hawkins said he saw the ruins directly in the port city Hudaidah. Eight children have been killed in airstrikes recently in North Yemen.
Food material, difficulty in supplying drugs
Representatives of UNICEF said that important ports and roads were damaged, which is very important to provide food and medicine. Because of this, food prices have risen three times over the past decade, hunger and malnutrition has increased.
According to an estimate, one in every two children under the age of five in Yemen is malnutrition. According to UNICEF, this image is not in any other country in the world. More than five and a half million children suffer from serious malnutrition, which is a threat to their lives, though it can be prevented.
It is not possible to treat many children to prevent malnutrition because they live in the far -reaching areas in the mountains or valleys. At the same time, 14 million pregnant and breastfeeding women are also suffering from malnutrition and it is a serious cycle that affects many generations.
Representative of UNICEF said it was not a humanitarian crisis. This is not necessary. It will be a destruction where thousands of people will be killed.