WFP Chief on Yemen: \u201cThis Is Hell\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 11, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2013David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, called the humanitarian disaster in Yemen \u00abman-made,\u00bb and described the conditions in the war-ravaged country as \u00abhell\u2026 the worst place on earth,\u00bb in a March 9 interview with the Associated Press. Beasley was speaking by video teleconference from Addis Ababa, following a tour of Yemen which included the capital of Sana\u2019a. The WFP needs at least $815 million in Yemen aid over the next six months, but has only $300 million, he said, adding that the agency needs $1.9 billion overall for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beasley said that at a child malnutrition ward in a Sana\u2019a hospital, he saw children wasting away from lack of food. Many, he said, were on the brink of death from entirely preventable and treatable causes, and they were the lucky ones who were receiving medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00abIn a children\u2019s wing or ward of a hospital, you know you normally hear crying, and laughter. There\u2019s no crying, there\u2019s no laughter, there\u2019s dead silence,\u00bb he said. \u00abI went from room to room, and literally, children that in any other place in the world would be fine, they might get a little sick but they\u2019d get recovered, but not here.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00abThis is hell,\u00bb he said. \u00abIt\u2019s the worst place on earth. And it\u2019s entirely man-made.\u00bb Yemen has been the victim of a Saudi war of aggression and a merciless blockade, under the direction of British policy-makers and with American support as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beasley stressed that despite all the accusations, the Houthis have actually eased up on their restrictions on the work of humanitarian aid agencies. \u00abWe\u2019ve turned a corner with the Houthis\u2026 in terms of cooperation, collaboration,\u00bb he said, adding that the only obstacle now is the lack of funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WFP Chief on Yemen: \u201cThis Is Hell\u201d March 11, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2013David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, called the humanitarian disaster in Yemen \u00abman-made,\u00bb and described the conditions in the war-ravaged country as \u00abhell\u2026 the worst place on earth,\u00bb in a March 9 interview with the Associated Press. Beasley was speaking by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,633,520,505,508,634,626,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-70358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-color-revolutions","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-healthcare","category-committee-for-the-coincidence-of-opposites","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70369,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70358\/revisions\/70369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}