'Yemenis are left so poor they kill themselves before the hunger does'

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The crisis in Yemen is so horrific and heartbreaking. I hope there is a permanent peace very soon.
 
I didn’t know about this conflict at all. Like it’s not in the news in my country. Who is fighting who there?
Definitely a subject to pray for.
One of my fave singer is Israeli from Yemen and so I listened to a piece of their music through her and it is very close to my heart. Lately I have been obsessed with her more Arabic songs and since she is deceases now (Ofra Haza) maybe she was pleading for her originar country to us the living, to pray more and do something about it?
 
Devastation of Yemeni infrastructure, health, water and sanitation systems and facilities by Saudi-led coalition air strikes led to the spread of cholera.UNICEF says that Saudi-led coalition airstrikes are deliberately targeting water systems in Yemen.
After 5 November 2017, the famine in Yemen worsened because the Saudis, with the help of the United States, tightened their sea, air and land blockade.
According to the manager of Al Hudaydah port, which is under the control of the Houthis, medicine and food cannot go to Al-Hudaydah, since Saudi-led airstrikes ruined the port’s industrial cranes in August 2015.
 
In October 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million people face starvation in what could be “the worst famine in the world in 100 years.” The following month, a report by Save the Children estimated that 85,000 children under the age of five have died from starvation. The famine has been compared by some commentators to the holodomor in Soviet Ukraine.
 
Once again, as we have seen throughout modern history, famine is being used as a weapon of war. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin used it in Ukraine in the 1930s, known as the Holodomor.
Now, Saudi Arabia, an ally of Britain and the U.S., is using the tactic in Yemen, where severe malnutrition threatens the lives of 400,000 children, according the charity Save the Children. In Yemen, at war for almost three years, UNICEF estimates there are 11 million vulnerable children in need of humanitarian assistance—40 percent of the population.
With seven million people facing famine and 17 million—60 percent of the country—who live in food insecurity, the World Food Program said last week: “Yemen is on the brink of famine. Cholera is compounding a dramatic food crisis. Food is being used a weapon of war.”
 
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