More than 333,000 people have been forced from their homes in Yemen since the beginning of August as fighting has escalated, including more than 24,000 in the past week alone, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said civilians “continue to pay a heavy price as violence damages health facilities, forces families from their homes, and hinders the work of humanitarians.”
The UN Human Rights Office has verified 289 civilian casualties since the start of August, with 72 people killed and 217 injured, OCHA said. Children accounted for half of those killed, while women and children together made up nearly two-thirds of all casualties.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a ballistic missile destroyed the Al-Saqiya Health Centre in Lahj province on 1 November, killing three health workers and injuring four. Four days later, two health facilities in the city of Taiz were damaged, putting essential services at risk for around 12,000 people.
Since the escalation began, 28 health facilities and seven ambulances have been damaged or destroyed, and 13 health workers have been killed or injured, according to WHO figures cited by OCHA.
Taiz province hosts the largest number of displaced people, estimated at more than 140,000. Movement in the city remains restricted, and local authorities said only a small shipment of around 400 bags of wheat flour was allowed in on Wednesday, OCHA said.
Restrictions on access routes have disrupted commercial transport, causing shortages of goods and pushing up market instability, while local banks have reportedly limited cash withdrawals.
Despite the difficulties, aid groups have reached more than 255,000 displaced people, most of them women and children. On Tuesday, they provided drinking water and storage containers to more than 6,200 people in Taiz and Aden, and delivered 11 trucks of emergency medical supplies to hospitals.
OCHA renewed its call for the protection of civilians and for “safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access throughout Yemen”, including in Taiz.
Since early October, Yemen’s internationally recognised government has been carrying out a military operation called “Dawn of Yemen”. Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad al-Alimi has said it aims to take state institutions back from the Houthis and regain control of the capital, Sanaa.
The operation is part of a wider escalation that began in July, the largest since a UN-brokered truce in April 2022 brought relative calm.
Yemen has been at war since the Houthis seized Sanaa and several provinces in September 2014. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition intervened to support the government.
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