Yemen Conflict: Over 840 killed and 4480 seriously injured
As conflict escalates in Yemen, the latest situation report indicates that casualties continue to rise at roughly 100 per day in the troubled country.
The Health Emergency Operation Centre (HEOC) register recorded 809 new casualties between 19 and 26 September 2026, among them 645 injuries and 164 deaths, bringing the cumulative total since 6 August to 4,481, including 838 deaths.
Deaths represented 20 percent of newly reported casualties this period, compared with 24 percent in the previous period and 17 percent before that.
Lahj remains the heaviest front
Al-Madharibah wa Ras Al-Arah and the Bab Al-Mandab coast accounted for the largest daily burden on both days for which detailed field reports are available (47 casualties on 21 Sep, including 18 deaths; 34 on 26 Sep), followed by Marib (Al-Jubah, Sirwah) and Taiz (At-Turbah, Maqbanah, Al-Ma’afer, Al Mudhaffar).
Registered displacement has grown by more than half in eight days.
The Executive Unit for IDPs consolidated report of 24 September registers 27,413 displaced families (180,513 people) across ten governorates, up from 17,852 families (122,297 people) on 15 September.
Marib and Al-Dhale’e have been added as governorates of arrival; Aden has more than tripled its caseload to 3,741 families.
A complex emergency, not only a trauma response.
Displaced families face rising risks of cholera, measles, malaria and dengue, and disrupted maternal, mental health and chronic care.
Rapid Response Mechanism registrations reached their highest daily levels of the crisis
The Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) registration enlisted 1,315 households on 21 September and 1,470 two days later on 23 September 2026.
The mechanism has reached 15,197 households (81,140 people) since 1 August, but kit stock-outs meant no households could be assisted in Taiz or Lahj on 24 September.
Cholera alerts in two IDP sites in Aden.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) have activated rapid response teams for active surveillance.
Suspected cholera cases reached 7,784 by week 38.
Around 40 percent of newly displaced households on the West Coast draw drinking water from unprotected wells or surface water, and nearly one third have no lockable latrine.
• Trauma load is displacing maternal care.
Comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (CEmONC) has been temporarily suspended in two hospitals in Marib and Ras Al-Arah as theatres and staff are redirected to war wounded; patients are being referred to the nearest functioning hospitals.
• Early warning signs.
Fewer facilities are reporting in Marib, Taiz, Ad Dali’ and Aden, where only about 60 percent were fully functional before the escalation. Verification is under way.
• WHO pipeline strengthened.
Two trucks carrying 258 Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) and Trauma and Emergency Surgery kits (TESK) valued at US$ 184,082 and weighing 8.9 Metric tons, left the WHO Dubai hub on 22 September.
Between 13 and 23 September the Aden warehouse dispatched US$ 655,891 of supplies (59.3 Metric tons) to 40 facilities in 10 governorates.
Eight Starlink kits were distributed to Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC)s to secure reporting connectivity for six months.
• Outbreak preparedness supplies secured through Central Emergency Response Fund
A US$ 517,109 procurement package bankrolled through Central Emergence Response Fund (CERF) has been planned to cover case-management supplies and 200 oxygen cylinders, 216 rapid response team kits, WASH/IPC supplies and laboratory diagnostics for cholera, measles, dengue and diphtheria.
WHO has also secured a further US$ 1 million from CERF and EUR 600,000 from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) for surgical and trauma supplies.
• Joint advocacy brief.
The Ministry of Health, WHO and the Health Cluster presented a joint Health Response Advocacy Brief and Call to Action, setting out the response plan and the resources required to sustain it, at a joint MoPHP–WHO high level meeting.
The event was attended by donors and partners on 28 September, convened by Dr Qasem Buhebeih, Minister of Public Health and Population, and Dr Jaffar Hussien, WHO Representative in Yemen.