The United Nations has described the humanitarian situation in Yemen as tragic, and confirmed that about 17 million people suffer from severe hunger, a rate of nearly half of the country’s population.
The organization, in a briefing submitted yesterday, Thursday, was equal to the assistance of the Secretary -General and the Deputy of the Emergency Relief Coordinator, before the Security Council regarding the humanitarian situation in Yemen, that malnutrition is still a scourge that strikes the country.
She added that malnutrition affects 1.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women, and 2.3 million children under the age of five, and warned against joining 6 million new Yemenis in groups that suffer from food insecurity, if human support does not last.
The UN official considered that the health sector in Yemen suffers from fragility and “the lack of financing may lead to the closure of 771 additional health centers, and is deprived of nearly 7 million people of obtaining life -saving care,” as women and girls face serious risks “including gender -based violence.”
Despite the difficult working conditions, the United Nations affirmed that humanitarian operations are still moving forward in Yemen and humanitarian workers committed to the performance of their vigor, and indicated that in the first three months of 2025, “more than 4 million Yemenis obtained humanitarian aid that is saved per month.”
The UN official pointed out that the financing remains “insufficient and still restricts our response and makes our efforts much lower than the needs of the Yemeni people, and called on the international community to move to secure aid and ensure their sustainability in proportion to the size of humanitarian needs.
It also called for immediate action to ensure the release of United Nations and other detainees, while maintaining unified support for efforts to reach a permanent peace in Yemen.
