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The United Nations confirmed that nearly fifteen million Yemenis are close to the famine line, in conjunction with the depletion of funding for the international organization agencies.
And Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a briefing to the UN Security Council, according to what was reported by Sputnik, that "more than 20 million people in Yemen, or nearly two-thirds of the Yemeni people, need humanitarian assistance and protection," noting that stopping the famine represents A humanitarian priority because some five million Yemenis are one step away from starvation and 10 million are another step behind.
Griffiths added that public institutions and services are deteriorating, depriving millions of people of clean water, sanitation, education and health care, which helps spread diseases such as cholera, corona and others. next.
For her part, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF” Henrietta Fore announced during a similar briefing that every ten minutes a child dies in Yemen and his death could have been avoided, noting that about 11.3 million children need humanitarian assistance to survive.
“In Yemen, a child dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes, including malnutrition and vaccine-preventable diseases,” Fore said, stressing that 1.6 million children have been displaced this year due to violence in the country.
Yemen is suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the world as a result of the continuous aggression of the Saudi regime since March 2015, during which it used various types of weapons, which led to the death and injury of tens of thousands of civilians and caused massive destruction to infrastructure and economic collapse. It also led to the spread of incurable diseases and famine throughout the country as a result of the siege. Yemeni ports and prevent the entry of medicines and humanitarian aid.