A child suffering from malnutrition is treating in a mobile clinic supported by UNICEF, in Damara, Yemen. Unisef: half of children under the age of five in Yemen suffers from malnutrition Humanitarian assistance ~ 60 > decade of conflict in Yemen led to the catastrophic consequences for children of the country living under the threat of air strikes and under the conditions of an extremely high level of malnutrition. This is warned on Tuesday in the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Urgent acts are needed,” said the representative of UNICEF in the country of Peter Hawkins. – I spent the last three days in Khodida … I visited the western valleys, where people are begging for help on the streets, on the sidelines of roads. They surrendered. We cannot give up. ”~ 60 > speaking from the capital of Yemen, Sana, according to the video, Hawkins informed reporters in Geneva that the country’s economy was destroyed, as well as the healthcare system and the healthcare system and the system of healthcare and Infrastructure. ~ 60 > “even during periods of reduction in the level of violence, the structural consequences of the conflict, especially for children, remain difficult,” he emphasized, adding that more than half of the country’s population, which is almost 40 million people, relies on humanitarian Help. 60 ~ h2 > crisis situation UNICEF supports the work of medical institutions and services to treat the consequences of malnutrition throughout the country, but at the moment the agency has received only 25 percent of the necessary financing. Without urgent support from the donors, the organization will not even be able to continue minimal activities, warned Hawkins. ~ 60 > Special Messenger of the UN Secretary General in Yemen Hans Hanes Grundberg warned at a meeting of the Security Council, which is under threat of collapse. The Husitian rebels, officially known as Ansar Allah, have been fighting for more than ten years against the government forces supported by the Coalition, headed by Saudi Arabia. After the Army in April 2022, prisoned by the mediation of the UN, large -scale ground -based combat operations in Yemen stopped, but military activity continues. 60 > 62 > 62 > 62 >Earlier this month, the United States inflicted several blows to the districts controlled by the Hussites, presumably in response to their continuing attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea. ~ 60 >~ 60 > lack of food and drugs Hawkins said about The destruction that he saw during his visit to the port city of Khodida, and emphasized that as a result of recent airstrikes in the north of Yemen, eight children were killed. 62 > “Critically important ports and roads – vital arteries for food supply and medicines – are damaged and closed,” he said. Food prices over the past decade have increased by 300 percent, which has led to an increase in the scale of hunger and malnutrition. ~ 60 > representative UNICEF noted that half of children under the age of five in Yemen suffers from malnutrition – “an indicator who has practically no analogues in world ”. 60 >“ among them more than 540 thousand girls and boys who suffer from a severe form of acute malnutrition – a painful and life -threatening condition that can be prevented, ”he added. ~ 60 >“ thousands will die ” 60 > Hawkins emphasized that under a special threat there are children who cannot get the necessary treatment, since they live in remote areas – in the mountains and valleys of northern Yemen. 60 >“ lack of derivation weakens the immunity the system, slows down growth and deprives the children of their future, ”he said. 60 ~ p > In addition, about 1.4 million pregnant and lactating women suffer from malnutrition, which leads to a“ vicious circle of suffering from generation to generation in generation Generation “. 62 ~ ~ 60 > in some areas of the country, including the Western regions, the level of severe and acute malnutrition reaches 33 percent. ” This is not just a humanitarian crisis. This is not just an emergency. This is a catastrophe in which thousands of people will die, ”Hawkins emphasized.