Statement
(Before Disaster Strikes)
The humanitarian tragedy, day after day, still gets worse and worse in Taiz governorate in which it alerts to a real disaster might happen.
At the neighborhoods of Taiz receiving hard shelling that left thousands of murdered, injured, affected and homeless people for about 19 months. What has been even worse was the forced displacement for inhabitants from the armed-clashes areas, which made thousands of households be below the poverty line.
For about four months, the salaries of employees have been stopped besides thousands of employees of the private sectors’ lost their income resources since the beginning of the war. The main goods got more expensive and the significant deterioration of the current currency besides the cut off of the essential services such as; water, electricity, hygiene. Furthermore, most of the INGOs have stopped sending their relief aid to the affected people in Taiz which refers to a serious indicator to real famine as same as what happened to Alhoddiedah inhabitants.
Since the beginning of the unjust war in Taiz City on Apr 2015 till Nov 2016, the total of murdered people was 3280 persons while the injured people were 15082 persons. The total of forced-displaced households from different areas inside Taiz was 177574 families and 317419 of households were affected.
During this period, about 3782 houses, shops, public and private facilities were destroyed and damaged partially and totally and about 322 of educational institutions were damaged and 73 of them were as a shelter for displaced people.
As the Coalition of Humanitarian Relief in Taiz with its partners realize the high percentage of sufferance among the governorate inhabitants, they warn of a imminent humanitarian catastrophe to happen which may threaten thousands of people if there isn’t a rapid and urgent intervention to save the city in the fields of health, food and shelters.
At the same time, Taiz governorate suffers of Epidemics and vital disease as the Cholera has been the last one besides the malnutrition and some of the chronic diseases which infected hundreds of people in several districts of the governorate as of these cases died due to the high risk level.
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 declared that Taiz was the most damaged cities than overall Yemen based on the number of murdered, injured and displaced people.
Since the siege of the western entrance has been broken at the mid of Aug, the city hasn’t received adequate aids from INGOs that may meet the real needs with comparison to the big population of the city and big numbers of inured, murdered and affected people – particularly after the big hinder of delivering many relief aids to the beneficiaries inside the city has been broken. These NGOS has a reason of the ongoing war for not being able to deliver such assistance which is not updated as they speak about displaced people in special areas like Alhawban and Khadeir, while they ignore other areas like Alshamayatein and other districts, because, perhaps, these areas need a lot of efforts to reach to.
Actually, the city where the war is, it is the main reason to focus on and provide it with relief aid, not neglecting it, even though there are secure areas that anyone could work in as a lot of NGOs inside the city still works but not adequately.
What make it even worse was the exit of the international organizations during the last months to other governorates.
Since the siege of the western entrance has been broken, CHR has issued three relief appeals, calling for sending relief and humanitarian aid to affected and displaced people. Such appeals and calls, however, INGOs responded with nothing. A number of hospitals of the city, Althawrah hospital which is the biggest one of the city, has made relief appeals on the necessity of providing it with medicaments and medical supplies after it had closed several sectors due to the lack of resources.
Before the disaster strikes, the Coalition of Humanitarian Relief and its partners renovates their appeals to the legitimate government, King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aids and Regional INGOs to interfere rapidly and save the city from a real famine started to pervade during the coming days.
Issued by:The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief and its Partners – Taiz Tue 6th Dec 2016