Entesaf Organization Issues Statistics for 3,100 Days of A ggression Against Yemen

The Entesaf  Organization for Women and Children’s Rights reported that the number of children and women victims of the American-Saudi aggression exceeded 13,788 dead and wounded.

The organization mentioned in a report on the aggression coalition’s violations against the children and women of Yemen during 3,100 days, and indicated that the death toll reached six thousand and 423, including two thousand and 477 women and three thousand and 946 children.

While the number of wounded reached seven thousand and 365, including three thousand and 10 women and four thousand and 355 children.

The statement explained that the rates of gender-based violence among children are constantly increasing, as they have increased by 63% compared to before the aggression, and according to statistics, the crimes and violations committed by the forces of aggression in the West Coast region amounted to more than 727 crimes, including crimes of kidnapping and raping women and children.

The statement pointed out that the number of those affected by the remnants of the aggression had increased to 210 children, who were killed or wounded as a result of cluster bombs and the remnants of the aggression since the beginning of the aggression.

The statement indicated that the humanitarian catastrophe that Yemen is going through is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, according to the United Nations. There are more than 21.6 million Yemenis in need of some form of aid in 2023, that is, 75% of Yemen’s population. 32.6 million need food, including 17 million people who suffer from food insecurity in Yemen, including 6.1 million people who have already entered a “dangerous stage of food shortages and acute malnutrition.”

It is estimated that poverty rates have risen to about 80 percent, and out of every 10 children, more than 8 live in families that do not have enough income to meet their basic needs. There are about 12.5 million women in need of life-saving reproductive health and protection services.

With regard to education, he indicated that the number of completely and partially destroyed educational facilities used to shelter the displaced and unsafe reached 3,768 facilities, or about (11.5%), or approximately 435 completely destroyed schools, and (42%), or approximately 1,578 schools, partially damaged by the aggression, and while The number of schools in the Republic of Yemen used as shelter centers for displaced persons reached (26.5), i.e. approximately 999 schools, with (20%) closed, i.e. approximately 756 schools throughout Yemen.

The statement said that more than six million male and female students are suffering from the collapse of the education system as a result of the aggression and siege, while 196,197 male and female teachers have not received their salaries regularly since 2016, which exposes an additional four million children to the risk of losing their education, while 8.6 million children (80 in percent of all school-age children) need emergency educational assistance across the country.

It added that two million and 400,000 children are out of school out of ten million and 600,000 of school age, and 31 percent of Yemeni girls are out of education as a result of the deteriorating humanitarian conditions and the inability of families to provide basic educational needs, and the deficit in printing school books has reached an annual rate. 56 million 615 thousand and 44 books.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the higher education and scientific research sector and its various institutions were exposed, during eight years of aggression and siege, to direct and indirect physical damage amounting to 727 billion and 983 million and 291 thousand riyals, approximately one billion and 340 million and 669 thousand dollars.

There are 16,000 cases of women and children who need motor rehabilitation, with at least 460,500 people needing assistive devices to help them move, while 153,500 people need artificial limbs or orthotics.

According to the report, the number of people with disabilities increased from three million before the aggression to 4.5 million people, indicating that about six thousand civilians have been afflicted with disabilities since the beginning of the aggression, including approximately five thousand and 559 children, and it is expected that the actual number will be much higher.

The statement pointed out that the aggression, the siege, and the humanitarian crisis, which is described as the worst in the world, exacerbated the suffering of children and caused the phenomenon of child labor to expand during the period of aggression at rates that may exceed four times what it was previously, as 1.6 million children working in Yemen are deprived of their most basic rights, reaching The number of global children is 7.7 million, which is about 34.3% of children of any age and constitutes 34.3% of the total population of the country.

It explained that the work rate is higher among older children compared to younger ones, as the rate of working children between the ages of 5 and 11 years is 11%, distributed between 12.3% for girls, compared to about 9.8% for males, and this percentage rises to 28.5% among children between between 12 and 14 years of age and 39.1% in children between 15 and 17 years of age.

According to the statement, the number of displaced children is 1.71 displaced children. 27 percent of them are women under the age of eighteen, which increases their chances of being exposed to violence.

With the limited shelter options available, displaced women and girls suffer most from the lack of privacy, the threat to their safety, and the lack of access to basic services, which makes them More vulnerable and vulnerable to violence and abuse.

 

The statement noted that one out of every three displaced families is headed by women, and the girls who support 21 percent of these families are under 18 years old.

 

On the health side, he stated that Yemen records the highest child mortality rates in the Middle East, where about 60 children die out of every thousand births, in addition to the death of 52 thousand children annually, which means a child dies every ten minutes.

Also, because of the blockade, it led to an increase in malnutrition rates, as they rose over the past two years to six million people, from 3.6 million, an increase of 66 percent, while more than 2.3 million children under five were registered suffering from malnutrition and 632 thousand children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. This year, there are more than 1.5 million pregnant and breastfeeding women suffering from malnutrition, including 650,495 women suffering from moderate malnutrition.

The statement stated that more than 80 newborns die every day due to the internationally prohibited weapons used and the repercussions of the aggression and siege, as the actual need for the health sector is estimated at approximately 2,000 nurseries, while it only has 600 nurseries, which causes the death of 50% of premature newborns.

The organization’s report stated that only 51% of health facilities operate in Yemen, and approximately 70% of obstetric medications are not available due to the blockade and the aggression coalition’s prevention of their entry, as more than 50% of newborn deaths could be avoided if basic health care is provided.

It stated that 35 percent of reproductive health centers and clinics have lost their ability to work, in addition to suffering from a severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and human resources, while the increase in cancer cases in some types of tumors has increased by a rate ranging between 200 to 300 percent, as the number of people infected with the disease has reached Cancer affected 35 thousand people, including more than a thousand children, and the number of children suffering from heart defects reached more than three thousand children who needed to travel for treatment abroad.

With regard to epidemic diseases, the number of infection cases reached about 4.5 million in the capital and the governorates, including 226 cases of polio, 1 million and 136 thousand and 360 cases of malaria, and 14 thousand and 508 suspected cases of cholera, in addition to the death of 15 children and the injury of 1,400 others. Measles in 7 governorates.

The number of kidney failure patients reached more than five thousand, threatened with death due to the aggression and siege.

The organization held the aggression coalition led by America and Saudi Arabia responsible for all crimes and violations against civilians, especially women and children, over a period of 3,100 days, calling on the international community, international organizations, and human rights and humanitarian bodies to bear legal and humanitarian responsibility for the violations and heinous massacres that occur against civilians.

It called on the free people of the world to take effective and positive action to stop the aggression and protect civilians, and to form an independent international committee to investigate all crimes committed against the Yemeni people, and to hold accountable everyone proven to be involved in them.