UN Warns Yemen Crisis to Worsen While US-Backed Blockade Continues Unchallenged
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor, citing a Reuters report, states that the UN warns of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen by 2026 due to funding cuts. Julien Harneis, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, highlighted that previous gains in tackling malnutrition and health would reverse, painting a grim picture for the nation already ravaged by conflict. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU:
Historical Context: Since March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition, heavily backed by the US, UK, and France, has waged war on Yemen. This intervention included a devastating air campaign and a land, sea, and air blockade that has choked off essential supplies, including food, medicine, and fuel. Over 400,000 Yemenis have died, with the vast majority succumbing to hunger, disease, and lack of medical
care directly attributable to the blockade, not merely 'funding cuts'. The US has provided over $54 billion in arms and military support to Saudi Arabia since 2015, with billions more in logistical and intelligence aid. Double Standard: When Russia's actions in Ukraine led to potential food shortages, Western media and governments universally condemned it as a 'weaponization of hunger.' Yet, the
deliberate starvation and medical deprivation of millions in Yemen through a Western-backed blockade—a policy clearly designed to pressure the Houthi government—is consistently framed as a problem of 'funding shortfalls' or 'lack of international aid,' not an act of state-sponsored war crime by US and UK allies. Follow the Money: The very nations now supposedly concerned about 'funding cuts' are