Middle East have no idea how dire the situation in Yemen has been and how it continues to be a disaster. Between the Brits and the Ottomans it's amazing there was anything left to fight over and the Saudis have been screwing around forever. To get just a brief glimpse of some of the situation here are some items from the recent past.
First of all they are poor despite having oil. Gee where have we heard that before? Most dire for daily survival at this point is water and over the last decade it has become increasingly apparent that they may be the first country to basically run out of water in their capital city and elsewhere. So between the conflicts and the water issue you have masses of people trying to move to areas to get away from fighting that don't have wells to support that kind of increase. Secondly is the issue of famine which had been developing prior to 2016 but became full blown that year. The population is estimated at over 34 million this year and in 2017 the UN estimated over 50,000 children starved to death. The famine is continuing. The ongoing conflict has, according to UN estimates resulted in over 377,000 dead and of that 70% were children under 5 years old or nearly 264,000 children under the age of 5. All of this in a country with oil and huge proven reserves of natural gas. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world with the worst outlook going forward by all reports from the UN and development/humanitarian organizations. That oil and gas may well be wetting the lips of the Saudis as well as their religious motivations.
Human rights as you can imagine are a disaster in Yemen as well as the famine and water situation. The UN relief agencies were forced to cut over 75% of their assistance in 2020 to the people of Yemen when the Orange Ruski/Jared/Saudis/UAE cut off tens of millions of dollars for those agencies work in Yemen. There is still a blockade more or less of Yemen mainly at the behest of the Saudis and with assistance form the US. Saudi ships routinely block and delay the few UN relief ships that do try to bring aid. The actors in the region deny they are blocking anything at all.
Yes of course the internal military battling in Yemen is too blame also and the radicals are a horrendous issue but I felt it was important to flesh a few things out to give an idea of the magnitude of what is happening to the average person in Yemen. On an editorial note I imagine if the factions in Yemen would agree to submit to Saudi approved "leaders" being installed to run the country, and to sign over all rights to their oil and gas to their new "pals", the Saudis would make sure there was plenty of food and water. The human rights violations would continue to go on because we all know how the Saudis care about that.
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