COVID-19 has compounded food insecurity, mainly due to limited work opportunities, lower incomes and reduced remittances”, OCHA said. All indications suggest that the severity of needs for large sections of the population is increasing.
“By mid-2020, Yemen had returned to alarming levels of food insecurity and acute malnutrition. OCHA said it was very difficult to bring aid into Yemen, citing an extremely restricted operating environment and a huge funding shortfall that had crippled the humanitarian response. UNICEF’s humanitarian appeal for Yemen for 2020, requiring $535 million, has received just $237 million – a funding gap of almost $300 million. Last month UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that Yemen was in “imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades” and Henrietta Fore, head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said the country was facing “an imminent catastrophe”. In 2020 the violence escalated and the hardship deepened with torrential rains, a fuel crisis, COVID-19 and desert locust infestations that are expected to cause damage and loss worth $222 million to staple crops, animals and livestock. Yemen’s complex civil war began in earnest in 2015, foisting disease, hunger and economic collapse on an already impoverished population. Children should be protected at all times.” “Verification is still ongoing, and the actual number of casualties may be higher”, Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF Representative to Yemen, said in a statement. UNICEF said 11 children, including a one-month old baby, had been killed in the past three days, in separate attacks in Taizz and Al Hudaydah govenorate. “Today, more families are grieving for children who died needlessly.” “These senseless attacks, with so many children and women casualties, are horrific and inexcusable,” Mr. Preliminary reports indicated that two children had been killed, with a further three children and four women injured. The chief UN humanitarian official in Yemen, Altaf Musani, the acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said in a statement on Tuesday that there had been artillery shelling of residential areas in the city of Taizz, a violation of international law. “Hostilities have directly caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties 3,153 child deaths and 5,660 children were verified in the first five years of the conflict, and 1,500 civilian casualties were reported in the first nine months of 2020.” “The war had already caused an estimated 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure”, it said. Global Humanitarian Overview: #InvestInHumanity- OCHA Yemen December 1, 2020 Driven by escalating conflict & a protracted economic blockade, humanitarian needs continued to grow in #Yemen, where 24.3 million people will need some form of humanitarian assistance &protection in 2021.
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