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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-save-the-children-yemen-20171116-story.html
Not that you needed more reasons to know Saudi Arabia is vile.
The Saudi+Emirati blockade of Yemen has resulted in 50,000 child deaths just in 2017. Saudi is leading the war against the Houthis assited by the Emiratis and local allies. Foreign mercenaries are also being used by the Saudis and Emiratis
From Save the Chidren
"An international aid group says an estimated 130 children or more die every day in war-torn Yemen from extreme hunger and disease.
Save the Children said late Wednesday that a continuing blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels is likely to further increase the death rate. It says over 50,000 children are believed to have died in 2017."
The Saudi coalition has partially lifted the blockade after international condemnation, but "closure of much of the country's air, sea and land ports is making an already catastrophic situation far worse,"
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“It will not be like the famine that we saw in South Sudan earlier in the year where tens of thousands of people were affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011,” said Mark Lowcock the U.N. under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, in a briefing at the U.N. Security Council last week.
"It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims."
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And just recently the Saudi defacto leader Muhammed Bin Salman, called the leader of Iran the 'Hitler of the MiddleEast.'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42117134
One thing I noticed with MidEasterners, is the blatant hypocrisy and total refusal to consider how hypocritical they are.
Not that you needed more reasons to know Saudi Arabia is vile.
The Saudi+Emirati blockade of Yemen has resulted in 50,000 child deaths just in 2017. Saudi is leading the war against the Houthis assited by the Emiratis and local allies. Foreign mercenaries are also being used by the Saudis and Emiratis
From Save the Chidren
"An international aid group says an estimated 130 children or more die every day in war-torn Yemen from extreme hunger and disease.
Save the Children said late Wednesday that a continuing blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels is likely to further increase the death rate. It says over 50,000 children are believed to have died in 2017."
The Saudi coalition has partially lifted the blockade after international condemnation, but "closure of much of the country's air, sea and land ports is making an already catastrophic situation far worse,"
-
“It will not be like the famine that we saw in South Sudan earlier in the year where tens of thousands of people were affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011,” said Mark Lowcock the U.N. under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, in a briefing at the U.N. Security Council last week.
"It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims."
-
And just recently the Saudi defacto leader Muhammed Bin Salman, called the leader of Iran the 'Hitler of the MiddleEast.'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42117134
One thing I noticed with MidEasterners, is the blatant hypocrisy and total refusal to consider how hypocritical they are.
