The large civilian toll in the Saudi War in Yemen has been driven in large part by the Saudis heavily restricting access to humanitarian aid in the impoverished country. Today, the UN announced that they are halting all aid flights into the capital of Sanaa.
In the past couple of days, Saudi Arabia warned aid groups away from the airport, then attacked the airport. This further restricts ways of getting supplies into north Yemen after destroying most of the seaports and heavily limiting the ships in the area.
All through the war, food has been in short supply in Yemen, and medicine often undergoes shortages that kill those with chronic health conditions. The shortages are far worse in the Houthi north, as the Saudis restrict naval travel into the last port of Hodeidah.
The Saudis have netted international criticism over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, though this has not slowed down the war, or the policy of striking aid entry points.
And these are our good friends.
This is entirely intentional.
Are we still re-fueling their aircraft, giving logistics??
“Multiple US defense officials and experts acknowledged that, through a US government process, the Saudi government pays commercial contractors to maintain and service their aircraft, and those contractors keep Saudi warplanes in the air. What the Saudis do with those fighter jets, however, is up to them.”
“The US could cancel those contracts at any time, thus effectively grounding the Saudi Air Force, but doing so would risk losing Riyadh as a key regional partner.”
https://www.vox.com/2021/4/27/22403579/biden-saudi-yemen-war-pentagon
Maybe if people are distracted by those the US will soon be starving in Afghanistan they won’t notice the US is still enabling the starving in Yemen. And hopefully while those folks are paying attention to one of those two places, they won’t notice the people in Syria that we are also starving. So many to starve with so little time. What’s a rogue, out of control country to do?