Yemen Monitor / Taiz / Special:
Dozens of internally displaced persons (IDPs), poor families, and people with disabilities in the Al-Misrakh and Hudnan districts of Taiz governorate held an angry protest on Thursday, rejecting the World Food Programme’s (WFP) decision to stop distributing food aid in the district.
The protesters held up signs demanding a reversal of the decision, warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe that threatens the lives of hundreds of families who depend on the aid as their sole source of survival, amid a sharp economic and living deterioration and the disruption of salaries for years.
The participants stressed that depriving the poor and displaced of food at this difficult time represents a “stab to the conscience of humanity,” calling on the Programme and donor agencies to immediately review the decision and continue relief support until living conditions improve and the specter of hunger and suffering is lifted from them.
