- The United Nations and its humanitarian organizations confirm that more than 23 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance and protection services. However, the United Nations and its relief organizations have reduced the humanitarian aid and closed their humanitarian programs.
- Peter Salisbury, a senior Yemen expert in the International Crisis Group, confirms that the situation in Yemen is exacerbated by Russian-Ukraine military operations that have affected Yemen “first by the loss of food supplies from Ukraine and higher prices on international markets; then, by higher fuel prices; and third, by a shift in international focus from Yemen and its people to the armed tension between Russia and Ukraine.” He also pointed out “the Yemeni diet depends heavily on wheat. Ukraine supplied Yemen with 40% of its grain. Besides, food is 60% more expensive than it was in 2021.”
- Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, pointed out that “In the city of Hodeida, Al-Thawra Hospital receives 2,500 patients daily, including ‘super-malnourished’ children.” This confirms the extent of the human suffering to which the people of Hodeidah Governorate, with a population of roughly 3 million, are exposed in particular and in the various governorates of the Republic of Yemen in general. In fact, international and national reports have shown that thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, died as a result of malnutrition and chronic diseases. The concerned authorities were unable to save the lives of millions of civilians due to the complete destruction of half of the Yemeni hospitals and the suspension of a number of them. In addition, there is a lack of medicines required to save the lives of patients with malnutrition and chronic diseases, as the Saudi-led Coalition of War has been imposing a comprehensive blockade and arbitrary restrictions that prevented the entry of basic materials such as food, medicine and oil derivatives.
- The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs also confirmed, “Around 2.2 million Yemeni children under the age of 5 are hungry. More than half a million are severely malnourished. Some 1.3 million pregnant or breastfeeding women had severe malnutrition this year.” She further noted “Every 10 minutes, a child in Yemen dies from preventable illness, according to Save the Children.”
