The international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders warned on Wednesday that malnutrition threatens the lives of many children in Yemen. The organization said in its account on the social media platform “X”: “The spread of malnutrition among Yemeni children has reached alarming levels, putting the lives of countless people at risk, given the conditions that threaten the lives of many of them.” The organization added, "From January to October, the MSF team treated 3,099 cases suffering from complications related to malnutrition, including 3,061 cases of severe acute malnutrition and 38 cases of moderate acute malnutrition."

She indicated that "these children, aged between one month and 14 years, were treated at Abs General Hospital in Hajjah Governorate." This hospital is supported by Doctors Without Borders, and it is one of the most important hospitals in Hajjah Governorate, most of which is controlled by the Houthi group.

The technical work team for the integrated classification of food security stages in Yemen confirmed that acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing in areas under the control of the Yemeni government, with the western coast suffering from “very critical” levels of malnutrition for the first time. He confirmed, according to the latest analysis of acute malnutrition within the framework of the integrated classification, that the number of children under the age of five who suffer from acute malnutrition or wasting increased by 34% compared to the previous year in all areas under the control of the Yemeni government, affecting more than 600 thousand children, including 120 thousand suffer from acute malnutrition.

He called on humanitarian actors and the international community to take immediate action to protect the future of Yemen's children. The four United Nations agencies also called for urgent and sustained international support, and immediate action to address the root causes of acute malnutrition, by strengthening existing systems in the areas of social protection, health, food, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Yemen is suffering from one of the worst humanitarian and economic crises in the world, as a result of the ongoing war between pro-government forces and the Houthi group, since 2014.