Political analyst: Houthi the main reason for committing crimes and denying the Yemeni people their rights
More than 19 million Yemenis are threatened with starvation on a daily basis as a result of the severe food shortage that hit the country in past years, which the United Nations described as the worst in the country’s history. Meanwhile, there are ongoing warnings of a potential disaster that threatens millions of people of different ages and classes if humanitarian organizations fail to provide the necessary food and health supplies in 2023.
Pictures circulated widely on Twitter last week of Yemeni citizens in the capital Sanaa trying to retrieve some crumbs of food from garbage bins sparked Arab and international sympathy and anger, demands for accountability for the worsening hunger crisis and urgent intervention to provide Yemenis with the necessary food supplies.
Famine in Yemen
Reports warned of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which ranks second in the world in the list of eight countries most affected by food insecurity, threatening catastrophic levels of hunger, according to a report issued by Save the Children on December 29th.
Yemen has the second largest number of people suffering from emergency levels of food insecurity, including acute malnutrition, reported over the past two years to be 6 million, up from 3.6 million, a 66% increase.
Children are bearing the brunt of the food crisis in Yemen, the British-based organization’s office said; “Because they are more vulnerable to malnutrition and death, because their developing bodies are more susceptible to disease, and malnutrition leaves lifelong effects on child survivors, including poor physical growth and cognitive development.”
Houthi Continues His Crimes
Abdul Hafiz Nahari, a Yemeni political analyst, said that Houthi is the main cause of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, pointing out that there are about 25.5 million people in Yemen out of a total population of 30 million, who live below the poverty line and are in urgent need of support more than ever before, all of them are suffering major crises amidst threats and crimes led by the terrorist militia.
“He explained in a statement that there has been a significant escalation of the humanitarian crisis due to the Houthi group’s intransigence toward renewing the UN-sponsored truce, and the famine is likely to cause a rise in conflict levels, and that Houthi’s continued plundering of state resources and Yemeni forces, imposing taxes and royalties on them, and denying them access to international aid is a major cause of Yemen’s dramatically increasing humanitarian crises.”
He stressed that the problem with the international community is that it deals with the humanitarian crisis in Yemen in isolation from the political crisis, the coup and the war, as if this crisis was born out of a vacuum, and there are no direct and objective reasons for it without interference or solutions.
