Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
The Executive Unit for the Management of Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Marib Governorate (governmental) issued an urgent appeal on Thursday to its partners, urging them to intervene quickly to save the lives of thousands of displaced families facing the threat of death in displacement camps in the governorate due to severe cold waves and frost.
The Executive Unit said in its appeal that “about 68,000 displaced families live in 203 camps, in addition to hundreds of families living on rooftops and alleys, and all of them are living these days in harsh humanitarian conditions in temporary shelters that do not protect them from the severe winter cold.”
It added that “the increasing cold waves these days continue to threaten the lives of thousands of children and the elderly among the displaced who live in these temporary shelters in the absence of safe shelter, and an almost complete lack of heating materials, winter supplies, and basic services.”
It pointed out that the camps of Marib Governorate have witnessed deaths due to the severe cold weather in previous years, noting that this danger still exists this year if emergency aid is not provided to the displaced and the minimum of their basic needs is not provided to ensure their survival during this harsh winter.
It called on the United Nations and all regional and international organizations to act quickly to save the lives of thousands of women, children, and the elderly living in the displacement camps in Marib Governorate, which hosts more than 60% of the total displaced in Yemen.
The Executive Unit called on its partners in its appeal to provide basic winter supplies such as blankets, winter clothes, and heating devices, in addition to maintaining and improving damaged temporary shelters to ensure the protection of the displaced from cold waves, as well as providing food assistance and enhancing health services to address winter diseases, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups.
This comes amid continued warnings from meteorological centers and weather experts that most Yemeni governorates will be exposed to a severe cold wave in the coming weeks, the most severe of which is next week.
