Yemeni children play near tents as a woman cooks outdoors at a makeshift camp for the displaced who fled fighting between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government, in the Abs district of the northwestern Hajjah province, January 12, 2021.
"We fear that there will be inevitably a chilling effect on my efforts to bring the parties together," Griffiths told the 15-member body. "This designation - it needs to be reassessed, it needs to be reevaluated. And quite frankly, it needs to be reversed," he said. "Aid agencies cannot – they simply cannot - replace the commercial import system," said Lowcock, warning the US decision would push Yemen into a "famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 years."The designation freezes any US-related assets of the Houthis, bans Americans from doing business with them and makes it a crime to provide support or resources to the movement.
Stillhart said the ICRC was increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian situation in Yemen – where it has its second largest operation worldwide – as infectious diseases, hunger and rising food prices hit civilians.
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