By: IBRAHIM Jaafar
The war in Yemen is entering its fifth year with no solution in sight. Every day thousands of people, including women and children, are injured and maimed. According to Amnesty International, “there is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians.”
The UN Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) announced on 16th July that more than 274,000 Yemenis had been displaced since the start of 2019.
The UNHCR noted that 75 people are reported dead or injured each week in Yemen.
Yemen has become one of the biggest proxy wars of our time involving a Sunni coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, and Shia Houthis, backed by Iran.
In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition entered the war with the announced aim of reversing Houthi gains and to install the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who was overthrown by the Houthi rebel group in March 2015 but it has carried out several attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians while Houthi's were on the same side of such a crime.
More than 70,000 people have been killed, according to UN reports, since the start of 2016.
With Yemen becoming one of the biggest proxy wars of our time, and there seems to be no halt to it anytime soon. The inocent civilians were suffering on the resulting war effect the most, thus, all the parties of the conflict must do their best to protect the civilians and their infrastructure.