The
humanitarian calamity in Northern Yemen, fueled by Saudi Arabia’s
blockade, has been killing large numbers of people, a result of lack
of medicine and increasingly scarce food. The situation just got much
worse.
Hopes
that Sanaa International Airport would be opened to aid flights to at
least slightly ease the crisis were dashed Tuesday morning when Saudi
warplanes attacked the airport, destroying its navigation station and
effectively shutting it down.
This
isn’t the first time Saudi planes have attacked the airport, and
indeed strikes against aid delivery sites, the airport and Hodeidah
Port, have been recurring throughout the war, making aid shipments
all the more complicated even on those rare occasions when the Saudis
will let such aid in at all.
Saudi
officials offered no justification for the attack, which added even
further to UN concerns about the shortages across Yemen. The Saudi
strikes underscore their increased willingness to use aid restriction
as a weapon of war, just the latest in a litany of war crimes they’ve
committed since the 2015 invasion.
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