SANA'A, Nov. 26 (Saba) - Yemen has inaugurated camp "Mizraq II" for the Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mizraq area of Hajjah governorate, who have fled from the war in the northern governorate in Sa'ada.

The camp was outfitted under the finance and supervision of the UEA Red Crescent in collaboration with the al-Saleh Foundation for Social Development.

The camp established under international standards contains 1000 tents could accommodate 7,000 IDPs. The camp was provided with all basic service, including medical, educational ones and a central kitchen could serve more than 20,000 meals daily.

Today, Thursday, about 500 families from the "Mizraq I" will be transported to the new camp.

The number of the IDPs in Hajjah governorate has reached 45,000, according to Hajjah governor Farid Mujawar.

The UNICEF Regional Director Sigrid Kaag has praised the UEA efforts to establish the camp and provide all IDPs' requirements.

Ministers of Health Abdul-Karim Rase'a, Education Minister Abdul-Salam al-Jawfi, Hajjah governor, UEA ambassador to Yemen Abdullah Al-Mazrouei and UNICEF Regional Director Sigrid Kaag have paid a visit to Mizraq School in the first camp, in which about 1,800 students were registered.

They get acquainted with the UNICEF-sponsored educational process in the school.

In addition, they have inspected the medical clinics and center for combating malnutrition among children in the camp.

According to the UN mission there are more than 160,000 displaced people due to the recent confrontations between the army and rebels.

The Houthi rebels have been launching sporadic wars against the troops since 2004. Thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents have been killed in Saada province, which located close to border with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded by rebel leader Hussein al-Houthi.

Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.

The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.

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