CSIS Exposes Saudi Arabia and UAE for Suspending All Humanitarian Contributions to Yemen

an American think tank said that gaps in available funding for humanitarian response in Yemen limited the capacity of humanitarian actors to efficiently deploy relief services during the truce.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) stated that southern Yemen experienced a drop-off in food assistance as the Saudi and UAE governments, traditionally responsible for the regional aid budget, ceased all contributions to humanitarian operations.

A UN survey in southern Yemen revealed that many IDPs held negative impressions of the truce period, as they perceived conditions as largely unimproved, following the Saudi and Emirati war that has been going on in the country for eight years.

The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that more than 70 percent of people in Yemen need humanitarian aid. It pointed out that “only 51 percent of health facilities operate in Yemen, and 4.7 million women and children suffer from acute malnutrition.”

As a result of the unjust aggression against Yemen from 2015 until the end of 2021, 377,000 people were killed, and it also caused huge losses in Yemen’s economy, estimated at $126 billion.

The United Nations announced that it had recorded a record number of women suffering from anemia in Yemen due to the ongoing war for the eighth year in a row.

In a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN confirmed that Yemen is one of the countries most affected by malnutrition in 2020.

The report indicated that between 2019 and 2020, about 4.8 million people in the Arab world suffered from malnutrition.

The UN envoy to Yemen, Grundberg, had warned of the continuation of the war and the return of confrontations, following the failure to extend the truce, as he stressed the urgent need for a comprehensive plan to establish peace.

Grundberg pointed out the need to work for a just and sustainable peace, and not just stop the war.H e also stressed that the immediate needs and priorities must be addressed in the context of a broad process that is heading towards a comprehensive political settlement.

Useless Processors

Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and behind them the United States and Britain, refuse to respond to the efforts to stop the war and the blockade, which caused the largest humanitarian catastrophe the world has known at the present time, according to the description of the UN.

The problem of Yemen lies in the war and the blockade it is exposed to at the hands of the Saudi-led coalition, and any solutions outside of ending the war and the blockade represent useless solutions to the problem in Yemen.

Figures from Sana’a

The Minister of Human Rights in the Sana’a government, Ali Al-Dailami, had referred to data and figures in this regard as follows:

The blockade caused the inability of families to obtain sufficient financial resources for basic needs, at a rate of more than 92 percent of the population.

The rates of people with malnutrition witnessed a sharp rise during the years of aggression, including one million and 200 thousand women, half of whom are pregnant.

Half of the children in Yemen under the age of five are at risk of acute malnutrition, after the number of malnourished children reached nearly 2.3 million children.

The siege by the US-Saudi aggression caused the suspension of the salaries of more than a million and a quarter of a million government employees, at an amount of approximately 74 billion riyals per month.

It caused an increase in the cost of living by more than 90 percent compared to what it was before the aggression, as a result of the serious deterioration in the level of income.

The blockade and aggression prevented more than 40,000 fishermen from practicing the fishing profession on the coasts of the Red Sea. The number of fishermen’s deaths is estimated at more than 500, while the navy of aggression detained more than 1,000 fishermen.