Government report: 54,000 people have been displaced to escape the Houthi escalation in Marib
English - Tuesday 02 November 2021 الساعة 09:22 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
A government report stated that more than 54,000 people have been displaced to escape the military escalation of the Houthi militia in the south of Ma'rib Governorate, northeast of Yemen.
The Executive Unit for the Management of IDPs Camps in Marib Governorate said that since the beginning of last September, about 54,502 displaced and forcibly displaced people have been forcibly displaced from the southern districts of Marib (Harib, Al Abdiya, Al Juba, and Harib).
It criticized the failure of the UN and international humanitarian organizations towards their repeated calls for relief to the thousands of displaced people who are crowded in the governorate.
In a report, the unit described the humanitarian response by UN and international organizations towards the displaced people fleeing the Houthi escalation in southern Ma'rib as "extremely frustrating."
The report pointed to the escalation of the consequences of the burdens of hostilities and the excessive violence of the ongoing brutal military escalation committed by the Houthi terrorist militias against the residents of the southern districts of Marib.
It stressed that thousands of families are still "stranded due to blocking roads, restricting transportation, endangering civilians and targeting passers-by" by the militia.
The Executive Unit pointed out that "the humanitarian needs gap is widening in all basic areas, which the local authority in Marib Governorate is trying with its limited capabilities to save the lives of thousands of recently displaced people and alleviate their suffering."
The digital report showed that 93 percent of the newly displaced did not have access to shelter, 96 percent did not have access to drinking water or usable water, and 70 percent of them did not receive food, while 98 percent of them did not have access to water tanks, bathrooms or school classes.
In its recommendations, the Executive Unit called on the United Nations and the international community to put pressure on the Houthis to stop their attacks on Marib, to deliberately continue targeting the displaced, to spare them new phases of displacement, and to bear the humanitarian responsibility for that.
The international, international and local organizations also called for urgent action to provide an emergency and urgent response to the newly displaced and to quickly reach the affected families to alleviate their suffering, especially with the onset of winter.
The Executive Unit for the Management of IDPs Camps called on the OCHA office in Yemen, United Nations agencies and international organizations to reconsider the data and criteria on which it is based in preparing the humanitarian response plan for the next year, in line with the exceptional situation, recent humanitarian developments, and the continuation of new waves of displacement in Marib Governorate.
