The government unit concerned with displacement camps in Yemen launched an urgent appeal to the United Nations and international organizations to save the lives of thousands of families living in displacement camps in Ma’rib Governorate as a result of the extreme cold.

This comes at a time when the World Food Program revealed that it was continuing to distribute emergency aid in Houthi-controlled areas, and that it had excluded about a million people in government-controlled areas from the lists of beneficiaries of food aid due to lack of funding, and about a million children from school feeding for the same reason.< /p>

The unit responsible for managing displacement camps stated in a statement that about 67,941 families live in 203 camps and temporary housing “unprotected from the extreme cold,” which threatens the lives of thousands of children and the elderly in the absence of heating materials and basic services. She said that recent years have witnessed deaths due to extreme cold.

If emergency aid is not provided this year, the government unit said that “the danger still exists,” calling on the United Nations and regional and international organizations to move quickly to “rescue women, children, and the elderly in the Ma’rib camps,” which include more than 60 percent of the displaced in Yemen.

The unit concerned with displaced persons’ affairs called for the provision of winter supplies of blankets, clothes, and heating means, and the improvement of temporary housing to ensure the protection of the displaced who live in poor conditions and face the risks of famine due to the lack of food aid as a result of the lack of funding provided by donors for the humanitarian response plan.