Local Editor

The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] revealed a video on its website on Friday about the "catastrophic cost of the conflict in Yemen", which began in late March when a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States started to launch airstrikes against the country.

"The humanitarian situation in Yemen is catastrophic", ICRC wrote on its website on Friday. 

"The conflict has killed more than 3,800 people and displaced 1.3 million so far. No family has been left untouched", it further said.

It added: "The laws of war must be respected. There must be free movement of goods into and across the country. Deliveries of food water and medicine should be facilitated". 

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

 

The death toll of civilians has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, according to the United Nations [UN] recently this week on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against the country on March 26 - without a United [UN] Nation mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.