The UNHCR office is working with partners to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches people affected by the conflict. (SPA)

The last two of six planes carrying UNHCR aid have reached Yemen, the Riyadh office of the UNHCR announced here Monday.

“The needed aid supplies landed safely in Yemen on Monday, boosting relief stocks in the war-ravaged country, on the third day of the temporary humanitarian pause,” an official from the UNHCR office said here.

The last plane carrying blankets, kitchen utensils and sleeping mats from stockpiles in Dubai reached Sanaa International Airport at 12:30 local time on Monday.

Together, the six flights have brought in 150 metric tons of relief supplies into Sanaa, while more aid is on its way via Djibouti by sea — part of a larger aid effort under way for 250,000 people, a statement said.

“The truce has enabled us to bring humanitarian assistance into Yemen. The UNHCR office is working with partners to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches people affected by the conflict,” said Nabil Othman, acting regional representative to the GCC countries.

In the last few days, UNHCR and partners have moved and distributed aid for displaced communities in Sanaa, Amran and Haradh (Hajjah governorate) in the north of Yemen, while aid from the UNHCR Sanaa warehouse was moved to Aden for distribution to some of the most vulnerable displaced people in the south.

With local partners, UNHCR has also been reaching out to communities, carrying out new assessments to inform UNHCR for aid distribution and to identify urgent protection needs.

An estimated 450,000 Yemenis have been uprooted from their homes in the recent conflict, joining another 330,000 people, who were previously displaced.

“These supplies will help alleviate the tough conditions for tens of thousands of desperate civilians wrenched from their homes as a result of the escalated conflict, as well as the closing down of what were already thread-bare basic services. Many are now struggling to survive in the open or in crowded public buildings,” said Charlotte Ridung, UNHCR’s assistant representative in Yemen.

“The population of Yemen now has some breathing space and the humanitarian community has an opportunity to deliver much needed assistance,” she added.

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