At least 7,700 dead, including 1,546 children, and three million refugees. The figures for the war in Yemen – too often forgotten by the international media, focused above all on the Syrian chessboard – are those of a humanitarian catastrophe. One that has been ongoing for two years now, since 26 March 2015, the date the conflict began.
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19 million people in need of aid in Yemen

"At least 19 million people in the country now need humanitarian aid and protection," explained the director general of the NGO Action contre la faim, Véronique Andrieux, to the French daily Le Monde. "In Hodheida (a city of 400,000 inhabitants on the Red Sea, ed.) one child in three is malnourished. But despite appearances, it is political decisions that are starving the population."
The activist pointed the finger at the arms embargo targeting the Houthi Shia rebels and their allies, imposed by the United Nations in April 2015: "In 2014, Yemen imported 90 per cent of its food supplies by sea. The arms embargo has turned into an almost total air and sea blockade, which has enormously curtailed imports of basic necessities, food included." Hence the direct accusation levelled at the countries supporting the military coalition allied with Saudi Arabia (the United States, France and the United Kingdom), engaged in the conflict: "They must stop evading their responsibilities. If the port of Hodheida is also blockaded, the humanitarian crisis, already widespread, will worsen further still. Last January, the price of wheat was already 32 per cent higher than before the war."

"$5 billion in arms from the United States and United Kingdom"

NGOs also stress that since the start of the conflict to date, the US and Britain have transferred arms worth more than five billion dollars to Saudi Arabia. "This is ten times the total aid paid or pledged over the same period to Yemen by the two countries, amounting to 450 million dollars. The weapons have been used to commit blatant human rights violations and have accelerated the humanitarian catastrophe," Amnesty International stated.
The organisation therefore launched an appeal to the international community to open "a credible international investigation into the crimes committed by all parties to the conflict" and to take "immediate decisions to halt the flow of arms into the area."
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3.5 million children out of school

Meanwhile, in Yemen the ongoing war makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal life. Among the serious consequences of the crisis is the impossibility for children to continue their education: "With the war," the United Nations stressed, "cases of children out of school have doubled. We have before us an entire generation at risk of being lost: 3.5 million young people, in one of the poorest countries in the world," warned Shabia Mantoo, local spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
So far, 1,640 schools have been destroyed, rendered unusable or handed over to the military to serve as barracks. This amounts to ten per cent of the total number of such facilities in the Middle Eastern nation. According to Unicef, moreover, as many as 212 armed attacks have struck school buildings directly, also causing the deaths of dozens of pupils.