New York-Sana
The United Nations announced that about 16 million Yemeni citizens, representing more than half of Yemen's population, suffer from hunger, warning that 5 million of these are on the verge of starvation.
Reuters quoted the United Nations as saying in new information that about 80 percent of Yemenis need help and that 400,000 children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition.
The United Nations has expressed its hope that it will be able to raise about 3.85 billion dollars at a meeting to announce pledges to be held via the Internet the day after tomorrow to avoid widespread famine in the country.
In this context, Mark Lowcock, a relief official at the United Nations, pointed out that before the war, Yemen was a country with an efficient economy and provided services to a large number of its people. The war had destroyed that to a large extent.
In addition, 12 aid organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and CARE International, warned that 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen will suffer from hunger this year if governments do not work to increase funding.
The Saudi regime has continued its aggression against Yemen since March 2015, using all kinds of weapons, which has caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties and massive damage to the infrastructure. The widespread siege imposed by this regime has also caused the largest humanitarian disaster in the world as a result of depriving the Yemeni people of their basic needs of medicine and food.