UNICEF: A contract from the conflict destroyed Yemen and pushed half of its children to malnutrition

Speaking from the city of Sanaa to reporters in Geneva today, Tuesday, UNICEF representative in Yemen, Peter Hawkins, said that even during periods of decrease in violence, he said that even during periods of violence, “The structural consequences of the conflict, especially on girls and boys, remained severe.”

He said that a child of every two children under the age of five suffers from malnutrition in Yemen today, which is “A statistic that is almost unparalleled all over the world” Among them are more than 540,000 girls and a boy who suffer from severe and severe malnutrition, “It is a painful and life -threatening condition and can be completely prevented.”

He added that 1.4 million pregnant and breastfeeding women also suffer from malnutrition, and that more than half of the population depends on humanitarian aid.

Mr. Hawkins said that food prices have increased to more than 300 percent over the past ten years, and that the vital ports and roads are prepared “Life and Drug Life”, Destroyed and besieged, however, UNICEF is still present on Earth to provide life -saving aid.

Action should continue

However, he warned that the organization’s call to Yemen for the year 2025 was only funded by 25 percent, and stressed that without urgent resources, UNICEF cannot continue. “Until the minimum services we can provide in the face of increased needs.”

He added: “We must move quickly. I was in Hodeidah, the coastal city, during the past three days. I passed the western plains, where people are on the streets and on the sides of the roads, begging and looking for help. They surrendered. We can surrender.”

He said that the organization recorded severe severe malnutrition rates of 33 percent, especially on the West Coast and Hodeidah. He added: “This means that we are about to disaster. It is not a humanitarian crisis. It is not an emergency. It is a disaster, and thousands will die.”

Mr. Hawkins said that UNICEF’s response this year needs an additional $ 157 million of support, and stressed the need for a sustainable investment in fighting malnutrition in 2026.

He added: “We cannot stop at the end of 2025 and say, God willing, and go. We must continue this help. The lack of education and other forms of suffering that are forced in Yemen to endure unparalleled.”

Protect human access

Mr. Hawkins also stressed the need to protect the access of humanitarian aid. He said that eight children died in the latest air strikes in northern Yemen.

In response to journalists ’questions, he pointed out that while the directed air strikes do not necessarily affect the process itself, they affect access to ports and airport and the ability of the humanitarian workers to move freely, “These two things are an integral part of any humanitarian assistance.”

He stressed the need to allow the delivery of aid without obstacles, and to enable the humanitarian workers to do their work. He called for the release of detainees from United Nations and other humanitarian workers.

He stressed the importance of moving towards a situation, “Yemen can look at peace instead of responding to the conflict.” He said: “Yemen’s children cannot wait another contract. They need peace today and tomorrow, they need justice. But above all, they need us to move now. Let’s not let them down.”