1,200 families in Majzar of Marib in need of food aid


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Yemen News Agency SABA
1,200 families in Majzar of Marib in need of food aid
[22/ February/2020]

MARIB, Feb. 22 (Saba) – Majzar district in Marib province, which has a population of more than 12,000 and is in the middle of Marib and Jawf provinces, is experiencing a humanitarian tragedy due to the repercussions of the aggression and the blockade.

The district's facilities and service projects were bombed by aggression warplane, which exacerbated the suffering of the residents, as a result of the interruption of service projects.

A field survey of the branch of the Supreme Council for Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the province recorded hundreds of severe, moderate and severe malnutrition cases in the district, which is a warning bell for organizations to prevent the occurrence of a humanitarian catastrophe. Children are their first victims.

The cessation of health facilities from providing primary medical services to patients, putting people between the fire of death slowly or traveling to remote areas for treatment with the resulting high costs, citizens in the district urgently need to activate health facilities in isolation and villages and provide them with equipment and medicines Medical supplies to do their part in alleviating the suffering of patients.

The suspension of the district's main water project as a result of its targeting of a series of raids from the aggression warplane prompted the housing to drink contaminated water, resulting in the emergence of many diseases and acute water support.

According to the field survey, more than 1,200 families need urgent food assistance to alleviate their suffering. He stressed the importance of moving to normalize the situation and facilitate the return of other displaced families and provide them with livelihoods.

Perhaps the most common facing the people in Majzar district is the absence of sources of income and the cessation of agricultural activity.

Dozens of families whose homes have been destroyed by aerial bombardment are in dire need of shelter assistance so they can rebuild their destroyed homes or help them build new ones.

The directorate's educational process also needs the support of both schools and educational staff, and the development of a program for the return of students to schools.

The director of the Branch of the Supreme Council for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Marib, Abdul Khaliq Al-Sharif, called on relief organizations to help families affected and displaced in the Majzar directorate as a result of the aggression.

He told Saba that the directorate is experiencing a difficult humanitarian situation in the absence of international humanitarian organizations playing their humanitarian role in alleviating the suffering of citizens.

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