Yemen: About 200,000 People Displaced Due to Houthi Escalation in September

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The Yemeni government announced the death and injury of more than 600 civilians and the displacement of about 200,000 people due to the recent escalation by the Houthi militia in Yemen during the month of September.

Yemeni Minister of Human Rights, Meshdel Mohammed Omar, stated that the recent escalation by the Houthi militias resulted, in a preliminary tally until September 30, in the death of more than 250 civilians and the injury of more than 360 others, along with the displacement of about 200,000 people, holding the militias responsible for the continued deterioration of humanitarian and human rights conditions in Yemen and the severe violations faced by civilians, especially children.

This was stated in the speech of the Republic of Yemen before the Human Rights Council in its sixty-third session in Geneva, where the impacts of the escalation on civilians and health and educational facilities were reviewed, as well as the continued recruitment of children, exploitation of migrants, detention of United Nations staff and humanitarian workers, in addition to threats to international navigation, according to the ministry's media.

The minister explained that the ministry was able to obtain information about 50 dead and injured victims from the bombing of convoys of displaced persons fleeing from Hays to Al-Khokha, noting that some victims' bodies were burned and charred due to the shelling.

The killing of three children in a Houthi attack targeting the village of Al-Tarirah in Taiz Governorate on September 17 was reviewed, including a girl who was only a year and a half old, in addition to the arrival of about three thousand people to the Republic of Djibouti as the escalation continues and the humanitarian situation worsens.

It was confirmed that the recruitment of children and their use in armed conflict represents one of the most serious violations committed by the terrorist Houthi militias, which have turned schools, summer centers, and other civilian facilities into tools for mobilization, indoctrination, and recruitment, pushing children into a military environment that deprives them of education and protection and threatens their lives and futures, noting that the United Nations has documented cases of child recruitment and their use in military and field roles by the Houthi militias.

He indicated that the effects of the attacks extended to health facilities and medical services in Taiz, Al-Hudaydah, Marib, and the western coast, where services in 26 health facilities supported by UNICEF were disrupted, harming the ability of civilians, displaced persons, the injured, and the sick to access necessary care.

He also addressed the looting of warehouses, clinics, and medical facilities funded by the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Works by the militias, and the targeting of the Saudi field hospital as part of the attacks that affected Al-Khawkhah, the port of Al-Mokha, and other civilian and service facilities.