Yemen, Houthis Agree to Extend Nationwide Truce, UN Says
War has been completely overlooked by Western media
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Yemen and Houthis agreed to extend a truce that came into effect in April 2022 – during Ramadan – offering a glimmer of hope in a country experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crisis on earth due to a war that entered its eighth year.
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António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said in the statement obtained by the Trends Journal that Yemenis “have experienced real and tangible benefits, including a significant reduction in violence and civilian casualties, an increase in fuel deliveries through Hudaydah port, and the resumption of international commercial flights from Sana’a for the first time in almost six years.”
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The truce was extended for two months.
Al Jazeera reported: Despite violations reported by both sides, the front lines have generally seen a reduction in hostilities compared with previous months.
However, the battle for Marib city, the last big city under the total control of the government in northern Yemen, has not stopped although the intensity has reduced.
UNICEF said Yemen is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world, with around 23.7 million people in need of assistance, including almost 13 million children. More than 10,200 children have been killed or maimed since the beginning of the conflict, the website said. By March 2022, around 17.4 million people were in need of food assistance, with a growing portion of the population coping with emergency levels of hunger.
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There is still tension in the country, but the Norwegian Refugee Council said the number of civilians killed and injured in the country dropped by more than 50 percent in the first month of the truce.
As recently as late March, the war, which was launched by Saudi Arabia from Washington D.C. – with the blessing of Noble Peace of Crap Prize Champ Barack Obama seven years ago – showed no signs of easing.
Several oil depots in Saudi Arabia suffered damage at the time after an apparent attack by drones and rockets launched by Houthi fighters.
As we have long reported, Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of the country for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis.
The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition grew concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia. So the U.S. decided to provide weapons to the Saudi- and U.A.E.-led coalition.
TREND FORECAST: The ongoing war in Yemen does not receive a fraction of the media coverage that the Ukraine War commands in the West.
We have been reporting on the Saudi led war in Yemen since it began and have pointed out that the United Nations estimates 377,000 deaths in seven years—including 10,200 children. Besides the war casualties, 17 million citizens in the country could starve to death.
The war will continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the world will be ignorant to the human suffering the United States and Saudi Arabia have inflicted upon the nation.
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