UNHCR Confirms Conflict Leaves 2.4 Million Yemenis Forcibly Displaced
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The Yemeni conflict resulted in forcible displacement of more than 2.4 million people, a spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed Tuesday.
In February, the Task Force on Population Movement, which is led jointly by the UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released a report that estimated the number of displaced people in Yemen at around 2.4 million.
"After almost one year of conflict in Yemen, more than 2.4 million people are forcibly displaced by the fighting, some of them in a hard reach areas. And the situation is likely to get worse, amid increasingly dire humanitarian and socio-economic condition and with no political settlement in sight," Leo Dobbs said.
Yemen has been under military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March last year. The Saudi military strikes were launched in a failed effort to undermine the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring the former fugitive president back to power.
More than 8,300 people, among them 2,236 children, have been killed and 16,015 others injured since the start of the aggression. The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
