Over 24 Million People in Yemen Need Humanitarian Assistance and Protection

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday revealed by numbers the size of the humanitarian disaster suffered by the Yemeni people as a result of the four-year-old war.

“The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world,” the organization said.

The organization indicated that over 24 million people in Yemen (about 75 percent of the total population) need humanitarian assistance and protection, including more than 14 million people in dire need of such assistance.

In their last analysis, the aid agencies found that more than 20 million Yemenis are “food insecure,” or unable to adequately feed themselves. Of those, 65,000 are in a “catastrophic” state. That figure is expected to nearly quadruple in upcoming months, and those people “will die if we can’t reach them with assistance,”.

Already, as many as 85,000 children under 5 may have died of hunger since the start of the war, as well as thousands more children are dying of malnutrition-related illnesses.