Yemen: One of the two children tough underneath after 10 years of war

“We have to move fast,” he said UNICEF Representative in State Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah in the last three days … I went through western lowlands, where people were on the streets, on the side of roads, begging and seeking help. They gave up. We cannot give up. ”

Speaking from the capital of Yemen Sana’a, he said that Hawkins told reporters that the disaster “Manames” was a tenth of Jeme’s economy, a health system and infrastructure.

“Even in the periods of reduced violence, the structural consequences of the conflict, especially for girls and boys, remained heavy,” he said, underlining that More than half of the country’s population near 40 million people relies on humanitarian aid.

Help for life under threat

UNICEF supports health insurance health care institutions and treatment of malnutrition across the country, but its activities are only 25 percent. The agency will not be able to maintain minimal services without an urgent donor action, Mr. Hawkins warned.

Huuthi rebels – formally known as Ansar Allah – are important government forces supported by Saudi water coalition for more than a decade and overthrow the President of the country ABD Rabbing Mansour Hadi in March 2015. Years.

Although the continuation of the world’s large military operations in Yemen has not occurred from a slammy truce in April 2022, the Army activity continues.

The Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen Hans Grundberg warned 6. March in Briefing for Security Council that the cessation of hostilities is increasingly at risk.

Earlier this month, the United States has launched multiple strikes in Huuthi control in the country, allegedly retaliation for Houthis’s targeting trade and commercial vessels in the red sea after breaking down the fire.

Mr. Hawkins spoke about the damage, the witness was in his first hand in the port city of Hudaydah and stressed that eight children died in the latest joints across the northern Yemen.

Food, medications blocked

“Critical ports and roads, food and medicine rescue, are damaged and blocked,” said Mr. Hawkins. Food prices in the last decade increased over 300 percent, hunger and malnutrition.

UNICEF official said that one of the two children under five years are malnourished in Yemen “, statistics that is almost free of violation around the world.”

“Among them are over 540,000 girls and boys who are seriously and acutely malnourished, a condition that is agonizing, a danger to life and completely preventable“He added.

‘Thousands will die’

Mr. Hawkins emphasized the dangers with children who cannot access treatment, because they are “far from delivery services in the farthest areas on the mountains, and deep in the valleys of the northern yemen …Malnutrition of weak immune systems, growth lifts and rob the children of their potential. ”

Furthermore, about 1.4 million pregnant women and women’s breastfeeding were malnourished in Yemen – “vicious circle of intergenerational suffering,” Mr. Hawkins said.

In certain areas, including western countries, heavy and acute failure rates of 33 percent were recorded.

“It’s not a humanitarian crisis. It’s not urgent. It’s a disaster in which thousands will die,” Mr. Hawkins insisted.