The Forgotten Crisis: Is anybody aware of the Yemeni civilian death toll on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the Saudi invasion?

The conflict that has resulted in the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe will be seven years old in March 2022. According to recent UN research, 377,000 Yemenis will die by year’s end.

According to a recent United Nations Development Program (UNDP) projection, if the crisis in Yemen continues, the death toll would climb to 1.3 million by 2030.

According to the UN report, an estimated 377,000 Yemenis have died in the US-Saudi assault on their country, with over 70% of those killed being children under the age of five.

The Saudi regime began the crisis in March 2015 when it unleashed airstrikes on its southern neighbour with the assistance and arms of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.

According to the UNDP, over 60% (226,000) of Yemeni deaths were caused by indirect causes such as preventable diseases or a lack of access to food, water, and health care.

Around 40% (151,000) of these Yemenis were killed in violent conflicts, either as a consequence of US-backed Saudi bombardment or on the frontlines.

According to the UNDP, children under the age of five accounted for 70% (264,000) of Yemen’s estimated deaths.

Yemen’s crisis has received comparatively little media coverage, and US political leaders seldom acknowledge this fact.

US President Joe Biden ran on a promise to put an end to Yemen’s turmoil. In February 2021, he declared that the US would stop financing Saudi offensive efforts in Yemen, despite the fact that all Saudi actions in Yemen are aggressive by definition.

On the other hand, the Biden administration has continued to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, and the war in Yemen has deteriorated since the Democratic president took office.

Meanwhile, only days after the Saudi regime executed 81 people in the world’s largest mass execution, the British Prime Minister paid a visit to the oil-rich kingdom to strengthen relations with Saudi Arabia.

According to UK media reports, Johnson travels to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to persuade Saudi Arabia to raise oil output and end what he regards as the West’s addiction to Russian oil, despite official figures stating that Britain is just 5% dependent on Russian oil and gas.

Without the West’s political and military aid, the atrocities committed by Saudi and UAE aggression in Yemen would not have been imaginable, “the president of the Abrar thin-tank proclaimed in front of the Saudi embassy in London.”

According to recent research by the Coalition Against the Arms Trade, the British government has given Saudi Arabia more than 22 billion pounds worth of bombs and ammunition in the seven years since Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen.

International watchdogs estimate that more than 100,000 Yemeni men, women, and children have perished since Saudi Arabia and its allies launched their attack on Yemen without the cessation of Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic of Iran has stepped up its diplomatic efforts to put an end to Yemen’s ongoing calamity.

“The Security Council’s biassed approach is against the political process of resolving the Yemeni situation,” the senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister for special political problems observed during a meeting with the Swedish special envoy for Yemen.

On Wednesday, Ali Asghar Khaji and Peter Samnebi, Sweden’s special envoy to Yemen, discussed current developments in Yemen over the phone.

Khaji criticised the Security Council’s unbalanced attitude towards the Yemeni conflict, claiming that it went against the political process of resolving the crisis, deepened animosity between the parties, and was swayed by political considerations and lobbying by aggressor countries, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The two sides emphasised the need for extending engagement in order to assist in resolving Yemen’s problem and bring the country’s current humanitarian catastrophe to an end as quickly as possible.