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The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) Issuing a New Report on the Humanitarian Situations in Taiz during Sep 2016
Wed 5th Oct 2016
Taiz – Yemen Republic
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) in Taiz has issued a new report on the humanitarian situations in the governorate for Sep 2016, including human and material losses that have been observed due to the events, the health and education situations and the humanitarian relief needs for the governorate.
CHR has declared in the report that about 87 murders and 332 injured, women and children were among them during last Sep, there were serious injuries due to the indiscriminate shelling and sniping to the neighborhoods and public markets.
Men were the biggest number among many victims as 67 were murdered and 227 were injured; while children were the second category among the victims as 9 were murdered and 74 were injured; while 11 women were murdered and 31 were injured seriously.
Damage and Destroy
CHR declared that 72 of houses, facilities, shops, schools, mosques, governmental buildings and public services were damaged because of the war. Two of houses were blown up by mines and improvised explosive devices in the edges of Hasanat area, the east of Taiz; one school was blown up in Saber Almawadem district; five of houses were totally damaged in different avenues of Taiz; 36 of houses were partially damaged by the indiscriminate shelling in As Selw, Haifan and other districts of the city.
What’s more, 3 trading shops belonging to civilians were damaged partially; 2 mosques were damaged, burnt and destroyed; 7 of governmental and services buildings were damaged; 15 of health, education and services facilities were direct shelled; and a heritage.
CHR confirms in its report that water, electricity and sanitation services are still cut off besides the lack to most of the health and medicaments services. The siege of western entrance has been broken since the mid of Aug 2016, though.
Forced Displacement
CHR has indicated in its report that about 530 households were displaced forcedly from their houses during the armed clashes in Hayfan and As Selw districts. These displaced households, who couldn’t even bring the necessary needs of their luggages, personal properties and furniture out of being afraid of death, resorted to schools or host families.
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 two Important Statements (1, 2) 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 and big numbers of inured, murdered and affected people. Such appeals, calls, however, responded with just very few aids, particularly after the big hinder of delivering many relief aids to the beneficiaries inside the city has been broken (the imposed siege of western entrance).
CHR has warned 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.
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.
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 10th Aug 2016 – declared that Taiz was the most damaged cities than overall Yemen based on the number of murdered, injured and displaced people.
Needs
CHR renews its confirmation regarding the monthly needs of relief aids in heath, environment, food, shelter, water and petroleum products fields – as published in a previous report – to ensure the progress of public life for Taiz inhabitants. CHR recalls on the donors of the international organizations to do their best and provide these suffering people with different and important relief aids as possible as they can.
CHR explained that the total of a monthly need to meet the governorate needs regarding health and environment is more than 82 million dollar; Affected families residing in the city also need to be provide with100 thousand food baskets per month, in addition to provide another 150 thousand food basket to displaced families that have returned to the city after breaking the blockade partly, in order to achieve its sufficiency and stability in thier life after displacement.
Regarding shelter, to solve the problem of displaced people inside the governorate there is a need to 25 shelter centers to alleviate the suffering of 16500 individuals, 29858 displaced and host households. Moreover, about two millions are in need for drinking and using-water based on Sphere Standards. In order to ensure the public life progress of the inhabitants of Taiz, the governorate needs to be provided with 685800 liters of diesel monthly and 174600 liters of petrol monthly as well.
Taiz still lives a very hard and tragedy situations since the beginning of war in 14th Apr 2015, and the imposed siege has made it even worse for more than 13 months as consumed items, food stuff, medical supplies, water and oxygen cylinders have been prevented to pass through the main roads, which still closed, to be delivered to people inside the city.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief in Taiz
Wed 5th Oct 2016
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