Yousef Ajlan - Al Jazeera Net
Ayoub Mohammed, a 40-year-old man, is one of hundreds of thousands of displaced Yemenis who have been driven from their homes by the four-year-old war between government forces and Houthis, and the suffering of fleeing to search for a living.
"Ayman, Ayoub and his family," wife and three children ", as well as hundreds of displaced people who are being reaped from the waste of homes and shops in a remote area of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, after they lost their homes and livelihoods in the areas where they fled.
"War destroyed us, and others earned money and happiness at our expense," Ayoub says, describing how the war turned his life into hell, after he left his home and became homeless in a half torn tent that does not protect him from rain and hail.
The United Nations says the number of people displaced by the conflict in Yemen has risen to more than 3.5 million, including nearly three million internally displaced people, living in difficult humanitarian and economic conditions.
| Ayoub stands next to his torn tent north of Sanaa (Al Jazeera) |
Ayoub and dozens of families live near "garbage dump", north of Sanaa, in the "Al-Jaraf" area, and rely on 95 percent of their food and daily use for what they get from "waste." "We have to use it so we do not starve," he says.
No organizations exist
Taya Mohammed, a displaced woman from Taiz, turns to plastic bags until the fire is set on fire to prepare food, while two of her children take care of a living, bring in the remains of food, and find "oil, flour and lentils" among the waste.
Al-Jazeera Net says that local and international organizations in Sanaa ignore their suffering, while finding limited assistance from youth initiatives that occasionally visit them and provide insufficient needs for days.
Many local organizations complain of a crackdown on them by the Huthis group, which controls Sanaa, where activist Samah al-Khudri points out that organizations are not permitted to visit displaced persons' places without the permission of the de facto authority in Sana'a and the donor.
| (Reuters) - They eat bread scraps in a bag they found in a garbage dump in Hodeidah, |
"The last time we were working in a camp for the displaced in Sana'a, almost the Houthis arrest two members of the organization." Al-Khudri told Al-Jazeera Net, explaining the suffering of working under the circumstances in Yemen.
In early November, the head of the so-called Houthi Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, issued a decision not to grant permits to any organizations or social components, and to stop renewing work permits for registered organizations, thereby reducing the work of organizations operating in Houthi control areas.
Al-Jazeera Net reported that the capital Sana'a has received at least 490,000 displaced people from several provinces since the outbreak of the war in March 2015, a statistic for those monitored by international organizations operating in Yemen, while there are tens of thousands of those organizations have not been able to reach them.
| Looking for leftovers in Yemen's Hodeidah waste (Reuters) |
The Information and Communications Officer in the Office of the Immigration Organization in Yemen Saba al-Maalami that they do not have any information in the camp, which is located north of Sanaa, pointing to Aljazeera Net that they can not reach all the displaced in all regions of the country.
Harassment and molestation
During the stay of the displaced persons next to that protected enclave, armed men died of ducks from a "garbage truck". "They forced us to sign a palm paper in which the owners of the waste dump were responsible for any child molestation," Naji Khalid said.
As they approached the "garbage dump" gate, the guards refused to allow entry and take pictures of IDPs who go daily to search for what they ate. They asked to leave immediately, and refused to comment on the death of the children.
Um Ahmed says that her child goes to the garbage dump and stays for a day or two to collect the remaining food and legumes, as well as empty plastic boxes, which he collects and sells for a low price.
| Obtained remnants of food in Hodeidah waste (Reuters) |
Um Ahmed helps her husband and son as well. She walks about two feet a day to fetch water, waits for two to three hours to pack bottles in her possession, and sometimes is harassed.
Al-Jazeera Net continued with the Executive Unit for Displaced Persons in the Sana'a office, and a source, who asked not to be identified, called on the IDPs in that camp to go to their office and register their names.
"We can not know every place for the displaced, if they are displaced there to come to our office, and we will send a committee to investigate and provide assistance to them," he said.
Displaced people in Yemen face an acute situation of insecurity and basic needs, living a precarious and precarious life in danger, and struggling to meet basic needs.