Yemen’s Children Are Dying of Starvation, While Saudi Arabia Suffers Obesity
Saudi Arabia in Yemen for seven years has committed crimes that were not done by the armies of Hulagu and Genghis Khan, with the countries that invaded it. Its siege caused Yemen to reach a great famine and a tragedy described as the worst in the world.
The United Nations’ reports about the Yemeni issue were neglected by the Saudi and Emirati regimes. Among the most prominent reports was written by the Executive Director of the World Food Program David Beasley, in which he confirmed the death of a Yemeni child every 75 seconds, in Yemen.
Speaking to the Security Council, Beasley said, “I was in Yemen, where more than 16 million people are facing a crisis that reaches the level of hunger and worse.” He warned that 400,000 Yemeni children may die this year, if no urgent intervention is made. He continued: As we sit here, a child dies every minute and a quarter. Are we going to turn our backs on them and look in the opposite direction?”
The report denounced the West’s lack of awareness of the tragedy of Yemen; Rather, they are racing to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, colluding with them in the aggression against Yemen. Only 1-7 billion dollars were collected out of the 85/3 billion dollars demanded by the United Nations to help Yemen in facing famine, diseases and disasters of war, which is as UN General Antonio Guterres described a “death sentence” for Yemenis.
The report continued: The Food Program has announced that nearly a third of families in Yemen suffer from malnutrition and rarely consume foods such as beans , vegetables, fruits, dairy products or meat, as there are families who live on leaves.
Comparison Between Yemen,Saudi Kids
The report compared the peoples of Yemen and Saudi Arabia and said that the situation is completely different. When Yemenis die of starvation, Saudi officials discuss how to confront obesity, which threatens 70% of the Saudi people.
Because of over-eating, the rate of food loss and waste in Saudi Arabia reaches more than 33%, which is more than 40 billion riyals annually (approximately $11 billion), according to the Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadhli, who called for a highly effective mechanism to reduce the amount of food lost and wasted.
The consultant in laparoscopic and obesity surgery, Dr. Ayed Al-Qahtani, had stated that Saudi Arabia is one of the Arab countries that suffers the most from obesity and severe obesity, where the real obesity rate suffered by individuals in Saudi Arabia is 70%.
Al-Qahtani also mentioned that the number of children suffering from obesity has reached about three and a half million children, at a rate of 18% of children of the Kingdom, which calls for the intervention of the concerned authorities to put an end to this scourge that threatens the lives of children in the future.