A serious warning of the consequences

Armed clashes have been relatively easing along the Red Sea coast and the new front line south of Al Hodeidah,  since the deployment of the Government of Yemen and aligned forces on 11 November.

 extends from the southern border of At Tuhayta district, going east through Hays and Al Jarahi districts to Jabal Ras district. However, hostilities, including artillery fire and air strikes, continued in several hot spots, including Al Al Haymah in At Tuhayta and  Hays, along the border with neighboring districts of Jarahi and Jabal Ras. 

Fighting, including air strikes, also continued in the Maqbanah district of Ta'iz province. According to a UNICEF report released last December, the protracted armed conflict has left 70% of Yemen's population, including 11.3 million children, in need of humanitarian assistance. 

 The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned that there is a lack of funds to continue providing food assistance to 13 million people in Yemen. From January 2022, 5 million people at immediate risk of hunger will be maintained on adequate diets. In 2021, 2.9 million people will receive reduced food assistance. 

 More than half of Yemen's population, or 16.2 million people, face severe hunger. Half of children under the age of five (2.3 million) are at risk of being malnourished. All basic services have fallen and the volume of humanitarian needs has reached catastrophic levels. 80 percent of the population - 24 million people - need some form of help. Two-thirds of all counties are laminated. 

An estimated 40,000 people in Ma'reb and more than 10,000 in Hodeidah have been forced to leave their homes since September in search of safety. Military operations along several front lines threaten the lives and livelihoods of civilians as well as their access to water, food, health care, and education. Health care across the country has been particularly affected by the protracted conflict and is now becoming even more strained in  Ma'reb and Hodeidah. 

Many hospitals and health centers lack staff, medicine and other supplies, leaving them unable to deal with victims of conflict and with basic medical needs.  WFP says it needs $813 million to continue helping the most vulnerable people in Yemen by 2022  and $1.97 billion to continue providing life-saving food assistance to families in need. on the brink of famine. 

  ICRC continues to provide food, household goods and medical supplies to medical facilities and communities in need. And the ICRC urges all parties to  conflict to limit human suffering by protecting civilian assets and critical infrastructure. But in the end, what Yemen really needs are influential people, organizations and countries to help come to an agreement to end this conflict.

 

_{Source and Credit: OCHA, WFP, IOM}