Yemen was already the world’s largest humanitarian crisis – 7M one step from famine and roughly 900k suspected cases of cholera, the largest and fastest outbreak in recorded history 2/
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For those of you who haven't followed, #Yemen is facing one of the worst episodes of mass deaths and atrocities in a generation following Saudi Arabia’s closure of Yemen’s ports and borders this week. Here’s what you need to know 1/
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Saudi Arabia announced the closures following a Houthi missile attack on Riyadh airport. The attack is terrifying – as are attacks against civilians/civilian infrastructure on both sides 3/
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Over the past week, Saudi Arabia has gradually reopened some ports and today announced the re-opening of all ports under government control. That sounds good, but it means ongoing horror for most Yemenis 4/
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Yemen imports most of its food and fuel through Houthi-controlled ports (in particular the port of Hodeidah), and most Yemenis live under Houthi control. Sana’a airport remains closed, including for humanitarian flights 5/
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Prices of food and fuel skyrocketed within hours of the closures. In some governorates, fuel has already run out. Hospitals and water pumps are shutting down. Disease will spread like wildfire, hitting babies and pregnant women first 6/
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Humanitarian organizations are trying to help, but themselves can’t buy fuel or get technical experts into the country. This, together w/lack of fuel, means humanitarian assistance will grind to a halt 7/
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Saudis want to reroute ships from Hodeidah to Aden or Jizan (inside KSA), but this would be bad. Aden is already at capacity, neither has Hodeidah's commercial/shipping infrastructure, and both would lead to prices that kill Yemenis 8/
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Yemenis can't afford higher prices - they're living in a collapsed economy, have exhausted their coping mechanisms, savings, and credit. Higher prices means death. 9/
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Incidentally, the closure of ports and borders won’t do anything to limit weapons smuggling, since weapons aren’t coming in through big container and fuel ships AND these ships are inspected anyway by the UN 10/
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But the int’l community, which has the leverage to turn things around and save hundreds of thousands of lives, has been all but silent. The US has said next to nothing. Everyone’s most concerned about demonstrating solidarity with Riyadh 11/
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A draft UNSC Presidential Statement condemned the missile attacks without even mentioning the humanitarian situation is close to being adopted https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/928810168028221441 … 12/
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Never mind that the UN,
@Oxfam, and the entire humanitarian community are warning that “It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades” http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58058#.Wgnb_VuPI2w … 13/Näytä tämä ketju -
To sum up, if nothing changes, millions will be at risk in
#Yemen, and hundreds of thousands will die very quickly. In the next few weeks, we’ll either come together to turn this around or live to regret yet another failure of our#neveragain promise 14/14Näytä tämä ketju
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