Highlights from the latest Yemen Conflict Escalation Situation Report
The number of casualties has risen again, this time led by Lahj.
The Health Emergency Operation Centre (HEOC) register reached 9,730 casualties among them 7,959 injured and 1,771 deaths, by 30 October, an increase of 658 in five days.
The period average of around 132 casualties per day is up from 93 in Sitrep #9.
Lahj accounted for 309 casualties equivalent to 43 percent.
Marib recorded the most deaths. Marib reported 36 deaths among 172 casualties (21%).
On 30 October alone it reported 117 casualties, including 20 deaths, from Al-Jubah, Harib and the Al-Jawf front.
West Coast services keep shrinking.
In Al-Waziyah, all three partner-supported facilities are non-functional, and October service data from Dhubab could not be collected because of access constraints.
Displacement has passed 300,000 people (IOM, 1 November), almost all in the past two months.
More than 43,000 people have fled Al-Madaribah wa Al-Arah (Lahj) since early October, Aden now hosts more than 56,000, and prices of essential items in Taiz city have risen three- to fivefold.
New IDP sites are opening without site management.
The CCCM October master list records 28 new or reopened sites hosting 21,273 people, none yet covered by a CCCM partner, and 105 sites (74,456 people) in western Taiz districts where the controlling authority changed in October.
Services reach a fraction of the displaced.
The World Health Organization (WHO) funds nine mobile circuits against a plan range of 30–40, and four fixed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Type 1 sites against 25–35. Interagency coordination with the Executive Unit for Internally Displaced Persons is needed to establish appropriate gathering points around which services can be planned.
Cholera continues to decline from its W40 peak (639 in W40, 443 in W43) in the five most-affected governorates; W44 is about 23 percent incomplete. WHO has prioritized 23 districts (2.25 million people) for an ICG request for single-dose oral cholera vaccine.
Supplies are still not moving freely. Sana’a airbridge flights on 29 October and 3 November were cancelled, and WHO’s second consignment to Taiz city (a 10 Metric ton test shipment with World Food Program) is awaiting a movement date.
Only 12% of the plan is funded and the support is short in duration.
WHO received US$3.7 million against the US$31 million 90-day plan, leaving US$27.3 million outstanding.
A further US$7.3 million is under discussion with European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) UF; if all arrive, 65% remains unfunded. This is critical to ensure continuity of the response beyond December 2026.
Four links in the trauma chain remain unfunded: referral dispatch, a Tier 2 surgical site, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) surge with fuel for 77 facilities, and rehabilitation after discharge.
Without rehabilitation, patients who cannot be safely discharged occupy surgical beds, reducing capacity to admit the next arrivals.
