IDPs in random camps… Suffering in the cold
More than 1 million displaced people live in about 1,000 and 700 informal camps, in free provinces, living in difficult humanitarian situations because of lack of basic needs in the context of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the Yemeni people.
As winter enters, displaced people face extreme cold within their worn-out tents in parallel with a lack of basic services, the most basic ingredients of a decent life, compounding their suffering, especially women, children, the elderly and the sick, who are the groups most affected by tragic conditions in those camps.
A report by the Information Centre of the Supreme Council for Humanitarian Management, Coordination and International Cooperation noted the high numbers of displaced persons in informal camps in 15 governorates, to record levels.
The report, a copy of which was received by the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), indicated that the informal camps amounted to 1,000 and 697 indiscriminate and isolated camps inhabited by 199 thousand and 433 displaced families, it comprises 1 million 239 thousand 581 individuals as of the end of December 2022.
“Amid the ongoing suffering and pain in displacement camps, the Supreme Council is working with humanitarian partners to provide food and shelter assistance may mitigating displaced persons, but the humanitarian response has fallen short of needs “.
The report confirmed that displaced persons lack the most basic services of shelter supplies and other assistance in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, it is the worst in the world for the Yemeni people, depriving hundreds of thousands of children of education and living a normal life.
According to the report, the number of displaced women is 618 thousand and 122, while the number of displaced children under the age of 5 is 193 thousand, in addition to 113 thousand and 950 displaced older persons.
These groups are the most vulnerable in displacement camps in the light of the deterioration of the living aspects and the essential ingredients of human dignity life and the absence of protection and empowerment programmes.
Thousands of displaced people living in the camps in high mountain areas complain of the extreme cold that puts down their bones while lacking the lowest means of prevention, as well as the spread of diseases and epidemics, they hope to get new tents and blankets.
While the international community seems to be closing its eyes, to the tragedy of those displaced, the Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs and local relief organizations are frustrated at turning a blind eye to this tragedy, which has multiplied with the disconnection as winter set in.
E.M