Angelina Jolie: The situation in Yemen is heartbreaking
English - Thursday 17 March 2022 الساعة 08:11 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The United Nations News website published the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, American actress Angelina Jolie, as saying that the situation in Yemen is heartbreaking and outrageous.
Jolie said in her speech during a video call to the International Conference in Support of Humanitarian Response in Yemen, under the auspices of the United Nations and the cooperation of the governments of Switzerland and Sweden, that she visited Yemen 10 days ago, and met a small sample among four million displaced people.
She added, "I visited an informal shelter where 130 families live... Only 20 of them receive food aid, and only when funding is available."
And she added, "It's heartbreaking and outrageous... Above all, it is a man-made crisis, and it must be put to an end."
And she added, "I visited an alternative school, which was made up of 5 small, dark rooms. The children sat on the floor and did not eat, and the teacher did not eat."
And on Wednesday, the United Nations announced that it had received financial pledges from 36 donors worth $1.3 billion for its humanitarian plan in Yemen for 2022.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, was seeking from the conference to obtain 4.27 billion dollars, which is the cost of the UN plan for Yemen this year, which aims to reach 17.3 million people.
For more than 7 years, the war has continued between the legitimate government, backed by the Arab coalition, and the Iran-backed Houthi militia that overturned power in 2014. The Houthi militia rejects any peace endeavors, and continues to target innocents, plant mines in cities, push children to the fronts, kidnap women and trap opponents. in detention and tortured.
According to the United Nations, until the end of 2021, the war had killed 377,000 people and cost Yemen's economy $126 billion in losses. Most of the country's population, numbering about 30 million, became dependent on aid, in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
