Warnings of a human tragedy as a result of the Houthi siege on the Abdiya district in Marib
English - Thursday 30 September 2021 الساعة 03:10 pm
Marib, NewsYemen, Private:
Relief sources said that the siege imposed by the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, ten days ago on the Abdiya district has caused a tragic and catastrophic situation.
A local source in Ma'rib told NewsYemen that the battles intensified in the southern districts, and the Houthi militia imposed a siege on nearly five thousand citizens in the district of Al-Abdiyyah and prevented the entry of aid and medicine to the besieged who could not help the sick from them.
The sources warned that the shops would run out of food and said that this required urgent intervention to save thousands of families whose lives the militia had put on the line after isolating the district from the city and raining it down with missiles and artillery.
Meanwhile, the Executive Unit for the Management of IDPs Camps in Marib appealed to the humanitarian coordinator and resident representative in Yemen, David Grisley, and international organizations to quickly intervene and work to open safe corridors for humanitarian aid to reach the displaced families residing inside the Abdiya district.
In the statement, the unit also called on the United Nations and the international community to put pressure on the Houthi militia to stop their attacks on Marib, target the displaced and spare them new phases of displacement, and urged urgent action to provide relief and speedy access to affected families and to provide urgent and immediate aid.
Meanwhile, Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani said that the displaced people in Ma'rib governorate amount to 7.5% of the country's total population, in an indication of the scale of the displacement disaster caused by the terrorist Houthi militia.
Al-Eryani warned of new waves of displacement of thousands of families, and second and third waves of displacement of families residing in IDP camps in the districts of western Shabwa governorate and southern Marib governorate, against the backdrop of the Houthi militia's escalation and systematic targeting of civilians.
The Minister of Information pointed out that dozens of families were forced to flee from those districts towards the densely populated city of Marib, which includes 2,231,000 displaced people, who constitute 60% of the total displaced people in various governorates and 7.5% of the total population of Yemen.
Al-Iryani indicated that the estimates indicate the largest waves of displacement since the coup due to the continued Houthi escalation and the militia’s indiscriminate bombing of populated areas and displacement camps. Calling on the international community, the United Nations, UN and US envoys, and human rights organizations to assume their legal and humanitarian responsibilities.
