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This does not absolve the UN organizations of humanitarian responsibility, and it will not hide the involvement of many of them in corruption and the theft of aid from the mouths of the hungry. In most cases, spoiled food is imported and the operational budgets of some projects are approved more than those allocated to the beneficiaries, in addition to the continuous disregard for the causes of the war, which created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world.
Health Sector Destroyed by US-Saudi Siege
For eight years, the medical sector has borne the consequences of the intense bombing, siege and war crimes committed by the coalition of aggression. However, the blockade appears to be the most important factor affecting health in Yemen.
Yemen, according to the Health Minister, is facing a high rate of fetal abnormalities, death during childbirth and the number of premature infants as a result of the aggression using prohibited international weapons and siege that prevented the entry of medicines. Reports of the ministry say that more than 27 children out of 1,000 births die annually.
According to the ministry’s spokesman: “because of the siege a child dies every 5 minutes, more than 8000 women die annually, and more than 2.6 million children suffer from malnutrition.”
Most of the population in Yemen lacks health care because of the destruction of health facilities in their areas or because of the lack of energy, medicines and medical equipment as a result of the siege imposed on Sana’a International Airport.
US-Saudi Economic War Doubles Poverty Rate
Reports evaluating the impact of the war on Yemen issued by the United Nations Development Program expected the country’s gross domestic product to reach $100.3 billion in 2030. During the first five years of the war on Yemen 2015-2019, the losses amounted to 15.6 billion dollars, bringing the GDP in that year to 20.1 billion dollars.
Reports confirm that the per capita GDP growth rate has begun to improve since 2014, the year during which Yemen witnessed the outbreak of the September 21 revolution. The economic effects of the war and the blockade imposed on Yemen also included the so-called economic output losses, which amounted to $88.8 billion during 2019.
As a result of the war and siege, the Yemeni economy lost nearly $90 billion during the period from 2014 to 2020, as it lost a large part of the capital for the public and private sectors, which represents the summary of work and economic achievements over the past decades.
Expectations indicate that the economy of Yemen, which is going through very critical conditions, after the rates of cumulative decline in macroeconomic indicators reached their worst stage, will continue to decline as long as the war and siege continue.
Preliminary estimates of the World Bank indicate that the financing requirements necessary for the recovery of the Yemeni economy are estimated at 88 billion dollars, at 17.6 billion dollars annually for a period of 5 years. The real GDP of Yemen shrank by about 46 percent during the period 2015-2020, and the cumulative losses in the real GDP amounted to about $49.8 billion during the same period.
The World Bank estimated that between 71 to 78 percent of Yemenis, representing 21 million people, were included below the poverty line at the end of 2019.
Sana’a Demand Right to Achieve Peace
Receiving salaries, traveling from Sanaa International Airport and other Yemeni airports without obstacles are the simplest rights of the Yemeni citizen, the rights guaranteed by all laws, the Charter of the UN and human rights treaties and conventions.
It is not possible to accept any proposal confiscating the rights of the Yemeni people, whoever rejects the rights of Yemeni people is the one who rejects the peace as confirmed by President Mahdi Al-Mashat.
The temporary UN-sponsored truce that lasted for six months in Yemen, concluding that all foreign interference, politically and militarily, must be ended to ensure a lasting truce and lasting peace. It also confirmed that no peace will be achieved without an end of the US-Saudi aggression, lifting the comprehensive siege and implementing urgent humanitarian steps that address the repercussions of the humanitarian catastrophe.
During the six months of the truce, there was not any seriousness to address the humanitarian issue as an urgent priority. The US-Saudi aggression bet on the economic card, the continuation of the siege is clear after all their other aggressive plans have failed.
The US-Saudi aggression, with UN complicity, is still evading the implementation of humanitarian and legal entitlements, foremost of which is the paying employee salaries and entering fuel ships to the port of Hodeidah.
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