In Taiz, Yemen, hundreds of thousands of people remain cut off from food and medicine.

Omissions

• The WFP figure of 800,000 includes Taiz City residents plus communities on Yemen's west coast whose access was lost in early September 2026, so not all 800,000 are inside Taiz City itself.
• The precise number is a UN operational access estimate (800,000), not a census; it fluctuates with frontline and road-access changes.
• The most detailed official statements (WFP, OHCHR, UN News) were issued in the second half of October 2026, around the session date, so the MEP was relying on very recent emergency reporting rather than a long-published statistic.

Sources

• PrimaryWorld Food Programme (WFP) — press releaseEscalating conflict in Yemen has cut off life-saving assistance to 800,000 people. Shifting frontlines, blocked roads and growing insecurity are severely...
• PrimaryOHCHR — press release by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk"The Houthis' closure of the only supply route linking Taiz to Aden is placing civilians at grave risk, blocking humanitarian aid and cutting..."
• SecondaryUN NewsIntensifying fighting in Yemen has cut off life-saving assistance to 800,000 people as shifting frontlines, blocked roads and growing...
• SecondaryAl JazeeraThe UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that shifting front lines and road closures have cut off 800,000 people from life-saving assistance...