Humanitarian Affairs Council calls WFP to commit to humanitarian principles away from politics

The Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation on Friday called on the UN World Food Program (WFP) to commit to the humanitarian work principles away from politics.

In a statement,  the Council expressed its surprising at WFP’s intention to reduce food aid in Yemen, under the pretext of lack of funding.

The Council indicated that the aid provided by the program is actually reduced and is only delivered every two or three months, which has exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe, and caused high rates of food insecurity, and increased cases of malnutrition, especially among children under the age of five.

The statement indicated that the council had previously addressed the program to urgently intervene and re-distribute emergency food aid on a monthly basis in order to limit the deterioration of the living conditions of thousands of families, but the program did not respond and refrained from distributing aid in some provinces such as Bayda and Hodeida.

The Council considered the WFP’s lack of commitment to the humanitarian laws and principles in providing assistance to the Yemeni people reflects the extent of the program’s bias towards the aggression countries side through the practice of blackmail and starvation of the Yemeni people.

In the statement, the Council wondered about the fate of the $1,177,000,000 dollars that the program received as funding until the end of November, 2021, as aid to the Yemeni people.

The statement stressed that “WFP’s attempt to implement the aggression coalition’s agenda by exploiting the relief file as a pressure card to bring the Yemeni people to their knees is futile and contradicts the basic principles of conducting relief operations.”