Amnesty International warned on Thursday that cutting US aid, accompanied by strikes on the Houthi group, will have severe consequences for the Yemeni people, who depend more than half of it on aid to survive.
The human rights organization indicated that the United States was “the largest humanitarian donor to Yemen for years,” noting that “these cuts threaten to deepen one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.”
The organization quoted relief workers as saying that the reduction of funding “led to the suspension of life -saving assistance and protection services.”
This includes the treatment of malnutrition for children and pregnant and lactating women, providing safe shelters for survivors from sex -based violence, and children’s health care services.
According to the organization, dozens of safe places for women and women have been closed, warning that several facilities provide reproductive health services or protection for women are also at risk.
Amnesty reported that the United States provided half of the coordinated humanitarian response plan for Yemen, as it granted $ 768 million in the year 2024 alone.
The organization pointed out that the American measures targeting the reality of the de facto staff must avoid “clearly and effectively” human relief operations, “adding that” the majority of civilians who need urgent assistance “live in the Houthi -controlled areas in northern Yemen.
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“Surprising and irresponsible discounts in American aid will have catastrophic consequences for the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Yemen, including women, girls, children and displaced people internally,” said Diala Haider’s researcher at Yemen Diala Haydar.
“Millions of people will leave in Yemen without support,” she added.
Haider pointed out that “the Yemeni people who suffer from hunger, displacement and exhaustion as a result of violence, lives in one of the most dangerous humanitarian crises in the world.”
She added that “the military escalation in Yemen, in addition to reducing American aid, will exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe faced by a people who still suffer from the long conflict.”
“We were forced to make fateful decisions based on slim or non -existent information,” said one of the aid workers.
In January, US President Donald Trump imposed a freezing of foreign aid while undergoing a review. Washington announced after that, 83% of the American Agency for International Development Programs were canceled.
The areas controlled by the Houthi group are witnessing almost daily strikes attributed to the United States, since Washington began an air campaign against them on March 15 to force them to stop targeting the ships they accused of being linked to Israel. Washington admitted the implementation of a section of these air strikes.
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