UN Staff Detained: The Humanitarian Shield Narrative Takes a Hit
The Houthis claim local UN staff aided an Israeli airstrike that killed top Houthi leaders this summer. While Western media predictably frames this as an outrageous assault on humanitarian neutrality, it’s worth remembering the US-backed Saudi coalition's own history of striking civilian targets in Yemen. (Remember the school bus bombing in 2018, using a bomb with parts from Lockheed Martin, a
major donor to US politicians? OpenSecrets would know.) The US government, quick to condemn this, simultaneously funnels billions in aid and arms to Israel, whose own military operations have flattened entire neighborhoods. One might wonder if 'international law' is just a suggestion when inconvenient, or if the UN itself has a varying definition of neutrality depending on who's doing the bombing.
After all, how many 'neutral' investigations has the US supported into its allies' alleged war crimes?