It is the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth, but barely reported and hardly discussed: the 2015 war launched against Yemen by Saudi Arabia with the support of the United States. (See our 29 September 2017 article, “MIDDLE EAST WAR DRUMS ARE BEATING.”)
Last week, the U.N. announced that the war in Yemen has resulted in the death of 233,000 civilians.
Altaf Musani, the chief humanitarian coordinator for the U.N. in Yemen, said hostilities in the country have “directly caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties; 3,153 child deaths and 5,660 children or verified in the first five years of the conflict, and 1,500 civilian casualties were reported in the first nine months of 2020.”
Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of Yemen for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president who was put in control by the Saudi’s, took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
In response, the Saudis formed a coalition to regain control of Yemen. NBC News reported that the Trump administration is considering naming the Houthi rebels a terror organization, a move U.N. officials say could lead to a worsening crisis. John Barsa, the acting USAID deputy administrator, personally appealed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to hold off on the decision, NBC News reported.
AntiWar.com reported it is challenging to quantify the precise number of fatalities because some regions in the country are “not analyzed” because the conditions are so poor, “they can’t really function.”
The U.N. has warned that the country is closing in on famine conditions and millions could be affected. The Guardian reported a recent assessment showed thousands in the country headed into famine, and that number is expected to triple at the beginning of 2021. The report said 16,500 people there are facing a “catastrophic, famine-like situation.” Oxfam’s Yemen director said it is “intolerable” that people in the country face conflict, coronavirus, cholera, and catastrophic levels of hunger.
“These alarming numbers must be a wake-up call to the world,” David Beasley, the World Food Program’s executive director, told the Guardian. “Yemen is on the brink of famine and we must not turn our backs on the millions of families who are now in desperate need.”
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Mushsin Siddiquey, Oxfam’s Yemen director, recently pointed to data produced from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute that showed G20 states “have exported over $17 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Kingdom entered the conflict in Yemen.” ReliefWeb.int reported that UNICEF’s humanitarian appeal pulled in $237 million, which is a funding gap of almost $300 million.
While the COVID War and its growing “cases” make headline news month after month, barely a peep from the Presstitutes of the mass murder and human suffering inflicted upon innocent people by murderous politicians and their nations that sell the invaders murderous weapons.
