The French Senate Warns of Danger in Marib

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A French Senate delegation on Thursday warned of a “catastrophic” situation in the Yemeni city of Marib, which will make the planned humanitarian conference at the end of June in Paris more necessary than ever before.

Nathalie Guelleh, who provided the initiative and is the only foreign delegation to Yemen since 2014, stressed that the population of Marib has moved from 400,000 to more than 3 million.

“The situation is really catastrophic,” she said, adding that “the relative stability in Marib explains the arrival of refugees from everywhere.

“The needs are enormous,” she said, particularly the needs of children living in conditions that provide minimum survival for young children.

“Humanitarian organizations can reach Marib only on the fronts, and it is impossible.

Guelleh predicted that the humanitarian conference to be held in Paris would provide a way to allow NGOs access to the oil and gas-rich province.

US-Saudi-led coalition has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 16,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite its claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people in need and is seeing a spike in needs, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a collapsing economy and diminished social services and livelihoods.

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