Alwaght- World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley expressed deep concerns about Yemen's humanitarian crisis as Saudi-led aggression on the country has pushed the Arab nation into catastrophe.
Describing what he saw during a three-day visit to Yemen this week, Beasley said "What I have seen in Yemen this week is the stuff of nightmares, of horror, of deprivation, of misery. And we - all of humanity -- have only ourselves to blame.”
“This country of 28, 29 million people has been suffering for years, but now, as some would say, it is on the brink of catastrophe. But it is not on the brink of catastrophe, it is a catastrophe,” he said.
The UN official also depicted a hospital in the Yemeni Capital Sana’a, saying that there were dozens of severely sick and malnourished children, with around 50 cases arriving every day: “they only have room for 20. The rest? They go home to die.”
Saudi Arabia, assisted by the Arab allies, especially the UAE, has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi movement and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
According to a new report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi-led war has so far claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis.
Early on November, 35 Yemeni and international NGOs said Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has put 14 million people on the brink of famine and called for an immediate end to the hostilities.
“With 14 million men, women and children on the brink of famine – half of the country’s population – there has never been a more urgent time to act,” the NGO said.
