Iran Press/ Europe: Oxfam added Wednesday that some 530,000 displaced people are in mountainous areas, many living in makeshift shelters with no insulation or weatherproofing, Arab News reported.
Muhsin Siddiquey, Oxfam’s Yemen director, says “freezing temperatures could be the final straw for families already struggling to survive desperate hunger.”
UN officials say the war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with millions suffering from severe hunger Peace talks earlier this month brought about a cease-fire in the port city of Hudaydah but have yet to address the wider conflict.
However, with only a few days to the UN sponsored peace talks on Yemen, Saudi Arabia had stepped up its attacks on the besieged Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, the only port through which most humanitarian aid and essential items for Yemen pass through. The United Nations warned that Yemen is on the brink of a major catastrophe.
The spokesman of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement expressed doubts about the United Nations' assertions about a recent peace deal on Hudaydah, saying that the progress has been made but the agreement does not seem to be the real one.
Earlier on November 8, thirty-five Yemeni and international NGOs called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Yemen, where they warned the Saudi-led coalition’s war has put 14 million people on the brink of famine.
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According to Press TV, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is man-made and a direct consequence of the severe restrictions on access to food, fuel, medical imports and humanitarian aid, the NGOs added.
The appeal was signed by Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Doctors of the World, the International Federation for Human Rights, CARE International, and Yemeni organizations.
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1.8 million children under the age of five are facing acute malnutrition, and 400,000 are affected by severe acute malnutrition,” Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF’s regional director in the Middle East and North Africa said.
The United Nations humanitarian chief said the war on Yemen has left as many as 8.4 million people in the Arab world’s already poorest nation in need of urgent food aid.
Saudi Arabia, with the support of the United States, the United Arab Emirates and several other countries, has engaged in military aggression against Yemen and ground sieges, naval and air strikes since March 2015. The war initiated by Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen has killed more than 14,000 Yemeni people, injured tens of thousands and displaced millions of Yemenis.
According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), since the beginning of the intervention led by Saudi Arabia and its' allies in Yemen in 2015, about 2,400 children have been killed and 3,600 maimed in Yemen.
The military aggression by Saudi Arabia has also affected Yemen by resulting in a severe food and drug shortage in the country.
Saudi Arabia has been using the precision-guided weapons provided by Washington to strike civilian targets in Yemen.
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