UN: over 250,000 Displaced by Yemen Conflict Since August
UN agencies say hospitals in Taiz have four days of fuel left as fighting blocks aid routes and deepens shortages of water, medicine and food.
- On Tuesday, the United Nations Refugee Agency reported that more than 250,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since August, with Taiz province accounting for 76% of departures and hosting 52% of newly displaced residents.
- The crisis accelerated after Houthi forces launched a lightning offensive last month, seizing Red Sea coastal territory and completely encircling Taiz, driving food prices up 50% and isolating the city's 1 million residents from essential supplies.
- World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic reported that 12 hospitals in Taiz hold only four days of fuel, while critical shortages of oxygen and medicines exacerbate a growing cholera outbreak amid the encirclement.
- Fighting has forced more than 4,000 refugees to flee to East Africa, including 3,800 in Djibouti, where health workers are battling a cholera outbreak at the overcrowded Markazi humanitarian site that has caused one death.
- Yemeni Foreign Minister Afrah Al-Zouba described the Houthi blockade of the supply route linking Taiz to Aden as a "war crime" intended to wear down civilian resistance, while UN officials urge immediate humanitarian access.
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Warnings are mounting against the repercussions of the siege imposed by the Al-Houthi group on the city of Ta ' izz, while the United Nations has announced an increase in the number of displaced persons in Yemen since the beginning of the recent escalation to more than a quarter of a million people.
Due to the ongoing fighting in Yemen, another tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and the number of refugees has increased to 250,000.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees believes that the country, once again entangled in a civil war since July, is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
More than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes and move to other parts of the country as fighting in Yemen has resumed, the United Nations (UN) said. The figure covers the period from August 1 to October 17, Matthew Saltmarsh, spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), told a news conference on Tuesday. The UNHCR, he said, is “deeply concerned about the worsening internal displacement situation.”
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