An estimated 2.2 million people around half of the population of Yemen's Taiz province are experiencing a worsening humanitarian situation due to the four-months armed conflict, a local center said on Sunday.
The people have been suffering from many challenges including a siege by the Houthi and pro-former president troops mostly given as aid into the governorate.
Other problems include soaring prices coinciding with acute shortages and lacks of supplies, shutdowns of business and deteriorating basic services.
The studies and economic media center revealed in a report that the escalating war has pushed the prices of products including foodstuffs to unprecedented highs. The price rise adds to other persistent problems including the lacks of key supplies due to the blockade on the country's sea, land and air routes, it said.
The blockade was part of the Saudi-led military intervention launched in late March against the Houthi militants who ousted the government. It has left the country to face acute shortages and lacks of supplies especially fuels, foodstuffs and medicines.
Food prices surged 50% inside the city, and 70% in rural areas, with citizens occasionally running out of food items, it said, elaborating that the price of a cooking gas soared 600% per cylinder. People in some areas have resorted to conventional cooking methods involving logging and quest for firewood due to the crises.
According to the authorities and agencies, the conflict has left 80% of the people across Yemen, around 20 million, in need of emergency aid.
Lately, agencies warned of an imminent hunger of more than 6 millions as they urged the warring parties to cooperate on aid deliveries to the affected the people. And there are more than 9 million people need urgent medical help.
In addition, Yemenis have been facing acute shortages of drinking water and the country's healthcare system is on the brink of collapse after hospitals shut down amid the lack of life-saving medicines, fuels and electric power.
Patients have been struggling for medical treatments as the hospitals continuing to be open have become full of war victims.
The center said many rural and urban citizens are struggling to access water as the General Water Authority has run out of diesel. As a result, people have been buying water for increasing prices three times the usual price.
The ongoing war in Taiz has forced many households to flee the city violence and seek refuge in rural areas. Moreover, a lot of businesses have shut down triggering unpaid vacations and layoffs a matter which deepens the suffering of the poorest families.