Throughout 2016, the UN High Commission for Refugees counted 3,936 airstrikes in Yemen. The newly released figures for the first half of 2017 show that previous figure, which covered an entire year, is already far surpassed, with 5,676 airstrikes launched by the end of June.
This has turned an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, with thousands killed in airstrikes, into an ever-mounting disaster, with the new strikes killing yet more civilians, and strikes so intense in some areas as to displace much of the civilian population elsewhere in the country.
Being an internally displaced person isn’t great wherever you are, but in Yemen it’s all but a death sentence, as a Saudi naval blockade is keeping food and medicine shipments in the country to a bare minimum, worsening a cholera epidemic and leaving much of the population on the brink of starvation.
Aid group Oxfam estimated that over 500,000 children in Yemen are already suffering from “severe malnutrition” because of the blockade, and there are no signs of that situation improving any time soon. Indeed, Hodeidah, the last port that has access to the country’s north, is nearly constantly under siege, with the Saudis seeking to transfer it to the control of the country’s southern government.
Where is Ivanka Trump?
Good question. A better one is where is Justin?
Where was this in Justin’s article about the Donald’s foreign policy? Trump wants to get along with Russia and he doesn’t want to escalate in Afghanistan(because we aren’t winning). Never mind about the rest.
Just be happy we are not being sucked and into Korea impelled….
Like telling the guy on the Pelham IRT at midnight he should not disturb the winos & nodding tweekers… It can only lead to trouble…
Was it yesterday or the day B4 that I read here that the Clown Prince. Wanted to exit Yemen… If his exit strategies include intensified bombing, I’m back to calling him the Clown Prince that he was, still appears 2B & apparently will continue 2B…
These $hithole places of great reverence for the unseen and Unknowables, all promulgated by homo sapiens, somehow these heresay reporters and their Cabalists seem to show the most csllous disregard for their fellow homo sapiens of any place on the planet.. Albeit in differing ways..