In four years of aggression against
Yemen, what has been produced? An humanitarian crisis for the Yemeni
people.
The United
Nations says nearly 100 civilians are killed or injured every week.
Air strikes have killed or wounded 37 children a month in the past 12
months. According to Save the Children, air strikes were the leading
cause of war-related deaths and injuries.
About 10 million people,
representing more than a third of Yemenis, do not have enough to eat.
Some 85,000 children under the age
of five may have died of severe hunger since 2015, and about 2
million Yemenis are malnourished, of whom 360,000 are severely
malnourished
About 24 million people,
representing about 80% of the population, need some form of
humanitarian assistance.
Nearly 18 million Yemenis lack
access to clean water. The war and difficult humanitarian conditions
have left more than 190,000 people fleeing to neighboring countries
There are also about 2 million
children in Yemen out of school, and about 1.2 million people have
been reported to have been diagnosed with cholera since 2017, more
than 2,500 have died.
These are the disastrous
consequences suffered by the people of Yemen. This is what the
regimes of the Saudi and American aggression wanted: to break all the
components of life and livelihood of the Yemeni people; to remain
poor and humiliated in front of the machine of daily killing,
bombing, destruction and starvation and forced dependency on the
forces of arrogance and colonialism.
This state of affairs legitimizes
our persistent call, for years, against the Saudis and their unjust
rule over the people of the Arabian Peninsula. They no longer deserve
the patronage of Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina, shaking
hands with killers in Tel Aviv and Washington, and killing Muslims in
Yemen and before that in Syria and Iraq.
Those in power in the Saudi Arabia
Kingdom have been shown, by the murders of Sheikh Nimr and Jamal
Khashoggi and hundreds of others, as unworthy of ruling the Islamic
holy sites in any way.
Human Rights Watch has reported
that the charges against Saudi detainees are linked to their human
rights activities, and Saudi prosecutors’ accusations against
female activists are the consequences of peaceful protests in Saudi
Arabia.
Even their own controversies have
become bothersome to them and expose a dark side to public opinion
against them.
Despite the clarity of the
political and legal vision of international and regional
organizations, especially regarding the illegitimacy of the Saudi
alliance and its actions contrary to international laws, the
American, British, and Israeli international regime constantly turns
a blind eye to all these inhumane crimes. Alas, public opinion is
thus only concerned with superficial matters and partial details
relating to humanity.
An official statement to the
British newspaper Daily Mail, said: “What we have revealed of child
recruitment and the possible involvement of British troops in the war
in Yemen has provoked great reactions.”
According to the Guardian, “The
British Secretary of State for Asia is investigating the British
forces training children to fight in Yemen and pointing out that
children represent 40% of the soldiers of the Saudi-led coalition in
Yemen.”
And as a result of the continuing
international reactions, the German government has extended the ban
on arms exports to Saudi Arabia for six months.
As for the desire of the Saudi
regime to process nuclear fuel as a first step toward possession of
nuclear weapons, Democrat Senator Robert Menendez and Republican
Senator Marco Rubio, in a letter to the Department of Energy,
protested support for Saudi Arabia to develop their capacity for
producing nuclear fuel.
“Washington should not provide
technology and nuclear information to Saudi Arabia; they are well
aware of the seriousness of the development of these matters on the
regional scene and that their results will be negative and
influential in the region.”
The equation today is clear in the
Yemeni political situation because all the figures point us to a
humanitarian disaster fabricated by imperialist and colonial regimes,
who have made the Saudi and the Emirate regimes tools of chaos, wars
and side conflicts that ultimately serve the existence of the Israeli
entity.
Nevertheless, the Yemeni resistance
is still present in its steadfastness in and building of a new
equation for deterrence to confront the criminal killing machine
against the people of Yemen.
We call upon our comrades in the
West to oppose their governments’ support of the neo-colonial Saudi
coalition through weapons sales, military exchanges, and economic and
logistical support. We also urge you to oppose the Saudi coalition’s
narrative of the situation. We encourage you read more on the
aggression and delve into the history of the crisis not through a
sectarian lens, but as a struggle of popular resistance against
imperialist-allied aggressors.
Editor’s note:
For more information and to join
actions aimed at ending US involvement, we suggest the Code Pink
website where there is a petition directed
at Congress to override Trump’s veto and to support the next, even
stronger, legislation–H.R.643 in the House and S.3652 in the
Senate–to end the war in Yemen.
To donate for aid to the Yemeni
people, go to Yemen Aid.
>> The article above was written by Majed Alwishaliy, and is reprinted from International Viewpoint.
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