UN a Bridge for US-Saudi Crimes in Yemen
Non-fatal epidemics such as cholera and malaria claimed the lives of 686 people in Yemen during 2022. Epidemics that could simply be treated have turned into a deadly nightmare in Yemen, which has been under war and blockade for the eighth year in a row.
Yemen is experiencing a number of catastrophic paradoxes in the health sector, resulting from unethical practices committed by the US-Saudi aggression under the cover of the United Nations and the Security Council. Children can lose their lives as a result of “tonsillitis” for complex reasons that were deliberately created by the countries involved in aggression to cause the greatest amount of harm among civilians in Yemen.
2.2 million children in Yemen suffer from acute malnutrition, which makes them easy prey for disease, in families whose poverty prevents them from being able to provide first aid to a sick child. They suffice with useless popular recipes to treat their sick children. This leads to a worsening of the child’s condition and the situation getting out of control, in a country that has lost 68% of its health capabilities due to the blockade and war, according to official statistics.
The UNICEF envoy said, on Wednesday, that Yemen has the highest infant mortality rate in the Middle East. A child dies every ten minutes, in addition to “the death of six newborn children every two hours, while half of these deaths could be avoided if basic health care could be provided,” according to the UNICEF envoy in Yemen.
Meanwhile, previous statements considered that the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen “occurs for human-made reasons and can be dealt with.”
Addressing Results and Ignoring Causes
The role of the United Nations in Yemen is limited to providing statistics, at best, on the humanitarian situation in Yemen. However, its role, according to the prevailing opinion of the Yemenis, is not playing its primary role in preventing the disaster before it happens, by ending the intervention of the military coalition in Yemen and lifting the siege on the country.
Lack of Confidence, Suspicious Role
Yemenis believe that the UN has become facilitating the mission of the US-Saudi aggression to commit all violations against the people of Yemen. The UN and its affiliated organizations are working to address the results of the war and the blockade instead of addressing the causes of stopping the war and ending the blockade. This makes the people of Yemen a victim of a closed circle of committing crime at the hands of the coalition and covering it up for suspicious purposes by the UN.
It seems that the UN mission, from the point of view of many in Yemen, has become “mitigating the effects of war and siege in service of the coalition.” Most Yemenis say that they have “lost confidence in the United Nations, given what they consider to be a “suspicious role” that the UN has played since the start of the war.
Meanwhile, some believe that the collapse of international law has turned the UN into an organization that thrives on humanitarian crises.