According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians were killed and injured since 2015, and a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids were women and children. More than 20 million people in Yemen are experiencing food insecurity; 10 million of them are at risk of famine.
The conflict has been widely seen as an extension of the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict and as a means to combat Iranian influence in the region. The US has been providing bombs to aid the Saudi forces and airstrikes in Yemen. Saudi Arabia has been fiercely criticised for launching airstrikes which have killed or maimed thousands of civilians.
Armed with state-of-the-art US and British warplanes, Saudi Arabia's air force and its allies have complete air superiority in the skies over Yemen.
In August 2018 around 40 schoolboys aged six to 11 were killed when a laser-guided bomb hit their bus in the Houthi-controlled north.
Writer: Dorab Mehta
18/06/2020
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