UN voices alarm after WHO chief caught up in deadly Israeli strike on Yemen airport

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4. The Tragedy of the Houthis

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In 2016, after the Saudi army intervened and lost in the Yemen Civil War, (Sunni) Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) initiated a naval blockade of Yemen, causing a man-made famine for the Shia Houthis. A UN panel of experts found that Saudi Arabia is purposefully obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Yemen.

In 2018, Save the Children estimated that 85,000 children had already died due to starvation before the blockade. In Nov 2018, according to a report by the NYT, 1.8 million children in Yemen were severely malnourished. 377,000 Houthis have lost their lives due to both direct and indirect consequences of the civil war—violence, hunger, disease, and displacement.


US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the US is complicit in this humanitarian disaster. See his exact comments in the archived link below.

Shia Iran (and Lebanese Hezbollah) helped the Houthis with food and arms so these Yemenis joined the "Shia Crescent." On behalf of Tehran, the Houthis counterattack Western shipping in the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden or directly against Israel with drones. And for the past several years, USCENTCOM has been conducting anti-Houthi maritime operations.



Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93present)

https://www.centcom.mil/

https://archive.is/dxEHV

https://news.sky.com/story/yemen-how-one-of-the-worlds-worst-humanitarian-disasters-could-get-even-worse-13111013

https://www.unrefugees.org/news/yemen-crisis-explained/