Taiz-Yemen
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) in Taiz has issued a new report on the humanitarian situations in the governorate for Apr 2017, including human and material losses that have been observed due to the events related to health and education situations and the humanitarian relief needs for the governorate.
CHR has declared in the report that about 104 were murdered and 257 injured, women and children were among them during Apr as there were serious injuries due to the indiscriminate shelling and sniping to the neighborhoods.
5 children were killed while 12 of them were injured; 6 women were killed, while five of them were injured as some of those were injured seriously.
Damage and Destruction
CHR said in its report that about 23 of houses, facilities, public and private properties were damaged doe to the ongoing war during Apr 2017.
CHR confirms in its report that the services of water, electricity and sanitation are still out of order inside the city besides the lack of most of medicaments and health services as well as the undelivered of relief aid from relief organizations and donors to Taiz since the partial-siege broken of the western side of the city in Aug 2016.
Forced Displacement
CHR pointed out in its report that 188 of households had been imposed to be displaced from their houses in (Alaferah, Almadha and Althawbany) and received no rapid shelters aid so far because INGOs have stopped sending such aid.
International Movements
On 9th Apr 2017, Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, OCHA coordinator in Yemen, paid a visit to Taiz city to acquaint the humanitarian and health situation.
After visiting several damaged neighborhoods and hospitals in the city, he met the local council, the Coalition of Humanitarian Relief and other humanitarian entities. The local council along with CHR had addressed all the rapid humanitarian needs of the province during this ongoing war and submitted a copy to Mr. Jamie. Furthermore, the attendances stressed on opening more secure pathways ; working on unblock the siege of the city and sending humanitarian aids to the affected people through the open pathways.
This visit has been considered to be the second one to Taiz city since Apr 2016.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief has expressed his condemnation for retention 200 trucks of relief aids in Alhodiedah province in the last month as they were assigned to be given to the affected people, but nothing so far.
CHR recalls on helping the affected and displaced people by providing them with relief humanitarian aids through the southern entrance “Taiz- Alturbah – Aden”, considered to be the only humanitarian secure pathway. CHR expressed, at the same time, for the big quantity of rotten food aids, 32 thousands of metric tons, arrived to Aden city by WFP, planned to be distributed in Aden and Alhodiedah.
CHR has warned in different chances and through its statements from a human disaster that may happened due to not sending relief aids to the city in which they would save a lot of civilians’ lives.
Drawing an attention that Yemen Government announced that Taiz, the biggest city within population, is a stricken city because of the war and siege as well as INGOs – in a recent report – declared that Taiz was the most damaged cities than overall Yemen based on the number of murdered, injured and displaced people.
CHR issued on Jan 2017 a full map of humanitarian rapid needs for affected and displaced people in Taiz districts and submitted to the entities concerned, the High Relief Committee, was on the top, besides Sub-Committee of the governorate and INGOs.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) – Taiz
Thu 4th May 2017
