Official In “Marib Idps” to Yemen Monitor: Shelter of 5 Displaced Families Destroyed By Fire Amid Sharp Decline in Humanitarian Interventions
Yemen Monitor / Marib / Exclusive:
The Assistant Director of the Executive Unit for the Management of IDP Camps in Marib Governorate (eastern Yemen), Dr. Khaled Al-Shajni, revealed that shelters belonging to five displaced families were destroyed by fire, resulting in injuries, in camps across the governorate within the past 24 hours.
In an exclusive statement to Yemen Monitor, Al-Shajni said that Al-Suwaida Camp witnessed the burning of a temporary shelter belonging to a displaced family, injuring a child and his father. Another fire today engulfed four tents belonging to families in the Old Marib IDP Camp, without causing any human casualties.
The government official noted that the recurrence of such fires during the month of Ramadan compounds the suffering of displaced families, amid what he described as a “sharp decline” in humanitarian interventions across all relief sectors compared to previous years, affecting even the most basic items such as food baskets and other assistance.
At dawn on Tuesday, a fire broke out in the tent shelter of displaced resident Abdulrahman Saeed Al-Kateet in Al-Suwaida Camp, located north of Marib city. The blaze completely destroyed the shelter and left him and one of his sons with various burns; both were transferred to the hospital.
Later that evening, the shelters of four displaced families in the Old Marib Camp, south of the governorate, were also destroyed by fire. The families lost all their belongings amid already harsh living conditions.
Marib Governorate hosts approximately 2,274,598 displaced persons—more than 60% of the internally displaced population in the Republic of Yemen—according to official statistics. They are distributed across 197 displacement camps.
