(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 17 – The new escalation of clashes in Yemen has already forced over 100,000 people to flee their homes in the last 3 months, and given the evolution of a conflict that has already caused hundreds of thousands of victims in almost 7 years, new mass displacements are imminent.
This is the alarm launched today by Oxfam, three years after those Stockholm Peace Agreements, which should have represented a first basis on which to later build significant progress towards a political solution, but which are miserably failing to guarantee security and a future. to an entire people at the end. “In the last 2 months alone, more than 120 innocent civilians have been killed and many families continue to risk their lives every day under aerial bombardments, ground clashes, anti-personnel mines and improvised devices scattered across large areas – said Paolo Pezzati, Oxfam Italia’s policy advisor for humanitarian emergencies – The fighting in recent weeks has intensified especially in the governorate of Marib, targeted because it is rich in resources, where increasingly bloody clashes have concentrated in the southern area -west of the city, around the Balaq mountains “.
The consequence of all this is that since last September alone 46,000 men, women and children have been forced to seek refuge in Marib City or in the district of Al Wadi to the east, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM); a figure that rises to more than 96,000 displaced persons according to the estimates of the local Yemeni authorities.
“Just 7 years ago Marib City had 41,000 inhabitants, but now it hosts over 1 million displaced people – continues Pezzati – Right now the main concern of humanitarian organizations, which like Oxfam have been trying to help the population since the beginning of the war, is of not being able to reach the displaced people who are too close to the front line, which is constantly moving and now surrounds practically the entire city. Every week even densely populated areas continue to be bombed and bringing aid safely to the population is more and more hard”.
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