SCMCHA: Stopping food aid is a punishment for the Yemenis for supporting the Palestine

The Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation confirmed that the decision of WFP to stop humanitarian aid in the free governorates is a political decision and a punishment for the Yemeni people who support the Palestinians whose people are subjected to genocide by the Zionist entity.

SCMCHA stated in a statement that the UN program’s decision on December 5, which included a “temporary suspension” of general food aid, is in response to previous American threats to cut off humanitarian aid if Yemen’s solidarity with the Palestinian people continues.

The statement declared that the program’s decision to stop distributing food aid in Sana’a and the territories that are free while continuing to do so in the occupied regions violates humanitarian principles, the most important of which are neutrality, impartiality, and discrimination.

He stated that the program has the necessary resources that enable it to continue distributing aid at the same level of distribution as last year, 2022, and that there has been no decrease in funding according to the program’s claims, pointing out that the volume of funding received this year exceeds the funding received by the program last year, according to WFP website website.

According to the statement, the Supreme Council worked hard with the World Food Program and provided a number of solutions to ensure the continuing distribution of humanitarian relief to the most vulnerable people, but all were rejected.

SCMCHA emphasized that politicizing the humanitarian file and aid is a crime against humanity, violates all international conventions, laws, and agreements, and exposes millions of people at risk of famine and death.

The statement held WFP responsible for the serious humanitarian repercussions on the lives of millions of people in need as a result of this unwise and unfair decision against the Yemeni people.