The
complicity of Western governments in the ocean of suffering being
wrought in Yemen exposes them as agents of Saudi brutality.
After
three years of relentless conflict, it has been estimated that out of
a population of 27.4 million, 22.2 million people in Yemen are in
need of humanitarian assistance, 17 million are food insecure, 14.8
million lack basic healthcare, 4.5 million children are suffering
malnourishment, while 2.9 million people are internally displaced. As
for dead and injured, the toll stands at almost 10,000 and 50,000
respectively.
As a
result of the conflict, the country is also facing the "largest
documented cholera epidemic of modern times." And this
epidemic can only have been intensified by the Saudi bombing of a
cholera treatment center in the west of the country, causing the
French NGO Médecins Sans Frontières to halt their work at the
facility.
Yet
despite this mammoth scale in human suffering, the Saudi-led Sunni
coalition's war not only continues, it has intensified with the
unleashing of a massive air, land and sea offensive against the
Houthi-controlled Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, one of the last
remaining points of entry of food, medicines, and other essential
humanitarian aid into the beleaguered country.
According
to Amnesty International, "Hodeidah's port is crucial to a
country that is 80% dependent on imports to meet basic necessities.
Cutting off this crucial supply line would further exacerbate what is
already the world's worst humanitarian crisis." Thus the
"assault on Hodeidah could have a devastating impact for
hundreds of thousands of civilians – not just in the city but
throughout Yemen."
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