Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is waging a bombing campaign with thousands of civilian victims, is facing the collapse of its whole infrastructure and not enough aid is coming in, the former Red Cross head in Yemen told said.
“It’s wider than a famine,” Alexandre Faite said of the situation in the country. “There’s a problem with structural collapse of the system in Yemen. You have problems of water, you have problems of sanitation… There’s also a crisis that has led to a million suspected cases of cholera last year.”
With the country’s infrastructure falling apart due to the ongoing fighting, “it’s not only one of the most serious crises that I’ve seen, it’s one of the most complicated,” the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said.
There is no doubt that what’s coming into the country at the moment isn’t enough and more should be done. Humanitarian aid to a large extent is allowed in, but the problem is that more is needed to ensure a decent level of life for the population otherwise the country is going downhill,” Faite, whose two-year mission to Yemen concluded earlier in April, warned.
Fate said about the raids on Hajjah provincethis week ” take percussion in the way they carry out attacks because they use vastly destructive forces… It’s also crucially important that all those, who are on the other side, don’t place their military assets near villages and towns.”
