Yemen: Humanitarian Pause, Situation Report No. 3

Highlights

• The humanitarian pause in Yemen is now in its third day. The pause is broadly holding and security has generally improved in many parts of the country compared to pre-pause conditions, particularly in the north, west and central regions.

• Violations of the pause have reportedly continued over the last 24 hours in some locations, mainly in parts of the south. Shelling and intermittent armed clashes have been reported in Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Al Dhale’e, Taizz and Shabwah Governorates. Shelling was also reported in localized areas of Hajjah and Sa’ada in the north.

• Partners have scaled up delivery of humanitarian assistance in the north, west and central parts of Yemen. On the second day of the humanitarian pause, 14,791 people received general food distributions in Sana’a and Sa’ada, and one-month food supplies for 66,000 people were pre-positioned in Sa’ada and Hajjah. Ten trucks carrying NFIs for 21,000 people in the south also departed Sana’a for Aden. Nutrition partners pre-positioned 37.3 MT of supplies in Taizz, Hajjah and Hudaydah, and deployed 28 mobile treatment teams.

• Response efforts in the south are lagging behind efforts elsewhere due to ongoing insecurity. Partners have faced difficulties accessing warehouses and implementing programmes, mainly in parts of Aden, Abyan, Al Dhale’e, and Shabwah. However, some activities do continue in these locations – including pre-positioning of WASH supplies, NFIs, emergency shelter materials yesterday.