In the eyes of the children of Yemen, the horror of the war

Giada Aquilaino – Vatican City

Hunger, deprivation, increased violence. Yemen is one of the worst “long” humanitarian crises in the world. This was mentioned by the United Nations 10 years after the escalation of the conflict, which was set by observers on March 26, 2015, the day when the coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which was in line with the Yemeni government at the time, began in a short time before. To worsen the tensions, after the beginning of the war in Gaza, the Houthis mainly attacked the American and Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of condemned, as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Since then, the extensive incursions that the United States in Yemen have been launched, which launched a new controversy on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in recent days due to the disclosure of the press about the alleged publication by error in the attack plans in Washington in social networks chat.

forAlanes from the conflict

In Yemeni soil, at the same time, the dramatic emergency is at risk of becoming irreversible, when the United Nations actually estimated in 2021 that the war has shipped more than 350,000 people. UNICEF now reveals that a child of every fifth under the age of five years is seriously suffering from malnutrition. Among these, more than 537,000 suffers from severe acute malnutrition. An equal concern is the fact that 1.4 million pregnant women and infants were exposed to malnutrition.

Economy, health and infrastructure

The conflict has also led to the elimination of the economy – food prices have increased by 300 % since 2015 – health and infrastructure system. More than half of the population of more than 30 million people depend on humanitarian aid, at a time when international financing is minimal. “This catastrophe is not normal: it is the result of man,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Yemen in Yemen, because the horror of the war.