HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
Issue 10 / 12 June -25 July 2019
Security Council briefed on HIGHLIGHTS threats to the Yemen humanitarian response Lack of funding threatens the Yemen humanitarian In a briefing to the Security pledged US$2.6 billion. Twenty- response Council on 18 June, the seven of the 40 donors who P 01 Emergency Relief Coordinator pledged have paid more than 75 (ERC), Mark Lowcock reported per cent of their pledges, and 20 Conflict in Al Dhale’e that the humanitarian situation of the donors have paid 100 per increases civilian casualities is worsening for many Yemenis, cent - and in some cases even and obstructs the while fighting continues in more. However, the countries humanitarian response many areas of the country. Since that made the largest pledges, P 02 June this year, 120,000 more Yemen's neighbours in the people have fled their homes Coalition, have so far paid only a Cholera stalks Yemen two due to conflict while 375 access modest proportion of the amount years after 2017 outbreak incidents where aid was blocked they pledged. As a result, the P 03 or delayed were reported in April Humanitarian Response Plan 2019 and May. A UN assessment of a is currently just under 34 per cent 7,508 Children killed or decaying oil tanker that threatens funded, compared with 60 per maimed since 2013 to spill 1.1 million barrels of oil cent at the same time a year ago. into the Red Sea was delayed P 04 WFP provided food assistance as the necessary permits could to 11 million beneficiaries in Delays in approving not be secured, Mr. Lowcock June, reaching more people than humanitarian projects leave indicated. A spill from the tanker ever before. While food aid is 2.6 Million people at risk could reach from Bab el Mandeb not immediately threatened, to the Suez Canal and potentially P 05 underfunding is curtailing the as far as the Strait of Hormuz, humanitarian response in other resulting in a major disaster for areas. Agencies are already the environment, shipping lanes suspending support to medical and the global economy. facilities that serve 9 million people The humanitarian response and are starting to suspend regular remains severely underfunded. At vaccination campaigns targeting 13 the High-Level Pledging Event for million people, including 200,000 this year’s humanitarian response infants. The nutrition response is plan, which the Secretary-General threatened, with work on 30 new convened in February, donors feeding centres in areas with the 2 worst levels of hunger halted and another 60 the ERC warned. This could mean an end to more threatened with closure in coming weeks, shelter assistance for more than 800,000 displaced putting at least 7,000 malnourished children at people, and the closure of reproductive health immediate risk of death. Up to 21 more key UN services for over a million impoverished women. programmes could close in the next two months,
Conflict in Al Dhale’e increases civilian casualties and obstructs the humanitarian response
In 2019, Al Dhale’e Governorate became one Since November 2018, intensifying hostilities of the most conflict-affected governorates in have caused three waves of displacement in Al Yemen. Fighting, which first flared up in the Dhale’e, starting in Damt District in November governorate in November 2018, intensified in 2018, then in Al Husha District in February, late March 2019, affecting Qa’atabah, Damt, Al and most significantly, in Qa’atabah in late Azariq and Ad Dhale’e districts causing mass March, when 2,500 families were displaced. displacement. In April, fighting spilled over Across the governorate, 10,375 families (around into An Nadirah and Ba’dan in southern Ibb. As 72,625 people) were displaced in the first half of early July, the frontlines in the governorate, of 2019. People displaced from Al Dhale’e have especially those in Qa’atabah District, continued been scattered in more than 77 districts across to be the most active in Yemen. Yemen, but most continue to reside in the governorate, in many cases in the same district. The progression of the conflict has resulted As of 30 June, 3,174 families were displaced in in a significant number of casualties. In 2019, Qa’atabah District, 2,593 families in Ad Dhale’e Al Dhale’e witnessed the largest year-on-year District, and 1,063 families in Al Azariq District. increase in conflict-related deaths in Yemen. The Protection Cluster’s Civilian Impact Humanitarian partners based in Aden and Monitoring Project (CIMP) reported 237 Ibb continue to support vulnerable people civilian causalities in Al Dhale’e since November from Al Dhale’e. As of 17 July, humanitarian 2018. The figures reported by CIMP indicate partners were able to provide emergency food an eight-fold increase in the number of civilian assistance to 11,852 families across Al Dhale’e. casualties in the three months following the In addition, Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) surge of hostilities in the governorate in late assistance kits were provided to 8,666 families March, compared to the previous three months. and non-food items to 5,338 families, and more CIMP figures also show that two-thirds of than 2,000 families received Multi-Purpose civilian casualties in the governorate in 2019 Cash Assistance. In the second quarter of 2019, were reported in Qa’atabah District. shelter assistance was provided to 1,041 families, 776 families were provided with access to safe The Office of the High Commissioner for water, and 1,197 families benefited from health Human Rights (OHCHR) was able to verify promotion activities. 78 civilian casualties, including 32 fatalities, in Al Dhale’e in the first half of 2019, more than Six mobile health teams continue to provide two-thirds of which recorded after the surge of health and nutrition assistance in areas of high violence in the governorate in late March. displacement across the Al Dhale’e Governorate. Health partners provided medical supplies,
Civilian casualites in Al Dhale’e Governorate Killed Injured Total