Taiz-Yemen
Wed 1st Feb 2017
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) in Taiz has issued a new report on the humanitarian situations in the governorate for Dec 2016, 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 142 were murdered and 477 injured, women and children were among them during junoury as there were serious injuries due to the indiscriminate shelling and sniping to the neighborhoods.
The men were top number among the numbers of victims, death toll 111, and 397 others wounded, while the children made the second category in the numbers of victims, where the number of victims reached 23 dead and 62 wounded, while killing eight women, and injured 18 others, most of those injuries were serious.
Damage and Destruction
The Coalition said that 23 homes and private property damaged by the bombing wholly and partly during the last month.
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.
Forced Displacement
CHR pointed out in its report that 226 of families had been imposed to be displaced from their homes in districts , Heffan, ,Alwazeyiah.and Altaizeea.
These families, who had been displaced forcedly during the conflicts to either schools or other host households inside the governorate and others, most of these families couldn’t have a chance to take their necessary materials and personal luggage with them out of being afraid of death.
A city without relief
At the time, that Taiz has still lived a very hard and tragedy situation because of the ongoing war in many areas that the siege imposed for more than one year made it even worse on hundreds of thousands of civilians inside the city regarding health, food and environment fields.
Since the siege of the western entrance has been broken at the mid of Aug, CHR has issued Important Statements and four appeals, the last one titled “Before the Disaster Strikes”, explaining that the city hasn’t received adequate aids from INGOs that may meet the real needs with comparison to the big population of the city.
It warns humanitarian relief coalition Real famine, May lead to humanitarian disaster is imminent in Taiz, the case brings us to what we have reached Hudeida governorate, due to stop sending relief aid for the city that need urgent intervention to save the lives of citizens, and support all the necessary essentials of life, especially with the monthly salaries outages State employees, he majority of these employees do not have sources of income only salaries.
At the same time it issued a coalition of humanitarian relief four distress calls After partial siege on the city from the west breakage Bomber And most recently a distress call “before disaster strikes.” Calls for the introduction of speed relief and humanitarian aid to those affected and displaced people However, these calls have not received any replies to the international humanitarian organizations, It has also issued a number of City hospitals distress calls, the need to speed the delivery of medicines and medical supplies have After that it forced the closure of a number of divisions because of the scarcity of resources.
CHR renews its reminder that the humanitarian situation gets worse and worse from one area to another as this impact reaches 15 districts, which has been facing armed clashes up to day and thousands of affected and displaced people live in. Once again, CHR appeals to humanitarian organizations and other entities concerned to support the governorate as much as possible as well as a number of hospitals sent their appeals to be provided with medical supplies after they closed several of their departments for the lack of resources.
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 issued on 10 Aug 2016 – declared that Taiz was the most damaged cities than overall Yemen based on the number of murdered, injured and displaced people.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) – Taiz
Wed 1st Feb 2017
