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Nearly 1,000 people have been killed, more than 4,200 injured and almost 198,000 displaced in Yemen since the latest escalation of conflict, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“The escalating conflict in Yemen is taking a devastating toll,” Tedros wrote on “X”, citing outbreaks of cholera and measles alongside the fighting.
The WHO’s immediate funding requirement has risen from $9 million to $31 million because of growing needs, he said, calling on donors to increase their support.
“Lives depend on humanitarian and health aid,” Tedros added.
Yemen has been engulfed in conflict since the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and several provinces in September 2014. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government.
Clashes between government forces and the Houthis resumed in July, becoming the most intense fighting since a period of relative calm that followed a UN-brokered truce which began in April 2022.
Fighting intensified in September, when the Houthis seized key areas in Al-Hudaydah and Taiz provinces, including the strategic city of Mokha and Mayyun Island, which overlooks the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
