Taiz-Yemen
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 91 were murdered and 787 injured, women and children were among them during December as there were serious injuries due to the indiscriminate shelling and sniping to the neighborhoods.
Men, as usual, were the biggest number among many victims as 71 were murdered and 568 were injured; while children were the second category among the victims as 13 were murdered and 138 were injured; while 7 women were murdered and 81 were injured seriously.
Damage and Destruction
CHR said in its report that about 45 of houses, facilities, trading shops, schools, mosques, governmental buildings public services, main roads and bridges were bombed by IEDs. In addition, about 23 houses were totally and partially damaged in different neighborhoods of the city by indiscriminate shelling, such as; Algahmaliyah, Bazara’h and Sulah besides As Silw district in the south of the governorate. What’s more, 3 schools, educational facilities and students were targeted by shelling while 3 mosques were damaged and eight of public and service offices were shelled; 3 main roads and bridges were bombed as well.
CHR has indicated that about 500 of persons had cholera in different districts of Taiz governorate, as two persons were dead in the district of Shara’ab Alrawnah; while 17 schools were closed in the same district due to the spread of cholera over there.
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 306 of families had been imposed to be displaced from their homes as some of them in Alrobaiy, Hethran, Alahkoom, Alqasr Round and Alwazeyiah.
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 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 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.
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; while displaced households are in need for a provision of 500000 of food baskets every month in which they might cover some of their basic needs.
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 and the imposed siege has made it even worse for more than 16 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, except the western entrance broken lately.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief (CHR) – Taiz
Sun 1st 2017
