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UN TO RESUME HAITI AID FLIGHTS

November 18, 2024 6:49 PM
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Residents of the Nazon neighborhood displaced by gang violence construct a tent
encampment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 15, 2024.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, haiti — 

The U.N. Humanitarian Air Service will restart flights within Haiti on
Wednesday, according to a statement from the U.N. World Food Program, which
manages the service.

The U.N. paused flights to Haiti's capital last Tuesday, a day after gangs
struck three commercial planes with gunfire, prompting the U.S. aviation
regulator to ban U.S. airlines from flying to the conflict-ravaged Caribbean
nation for 30 days.

"UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transport in Haiti for the entire
humanitarian community, including local and international NGOs," WFP said in a
statement, adding that the suspension had not affected food supplies.

Haiti's government helicopter also resumed services Monday, transporting three
new government ministers. A cabinet shake-up last week resulted in the ouster of
the prime minister and the replacement of many of his top ministers.

Even as the flights restarted, armed violence continued in parts of
Port-au-Prince, such as Lower Delmas.

The majority of Port-au-Prince is under the control of armed gangs who have been
making gains in recent weeks while a long-delayed, partly deployed U.N.-backed
mission to reclaim territories and ensure aid deliveries continues to be
stalled.

On Sunday, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration estimated that
more than 20,000 people had been displaced across the capital in just four days,
marking the largest mass displacement in over a year.

"The isolation of Port-au-Prince is amplifying an already dire humanitarian
situation," the IOM Haiti chief, Gregoire Goodstein, said in a statement, adding
that only 20% of the capital was accessible to humanitarian workers.

"Our ability to deliver aid is stretched to its limits. Without immediate
international support, the suffering will worsen exponentially," he said.

UNICEF Haiti chief Geeta Narayan said over half of the 20,000 displaced were
children, who were facing the "compounded impacts of malnutrition, cholera
outbreaks, severe psychological distress and, all too often, tragic loss of
life."

The IOM estimated that as of early September over 700,000 people had been
internally displaced in the country, while the IPC, a benchmark index of food
insecurity, has reported worsening shortages with 6,000 people facing
famine-level hunger.

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