Guardian: Yemeni war will not end soon. Hunger, Corona and possible new displacement from Marib
The Guardian’s Bitan McKernan said the ground war in Yemen will not end any time soon”.
“Yemen and its Yemeni friends have a special place in his heart. Every visit is like a sweet experience, and all the memories of beautiful nights may end with a veil of sadness,” he said.
During a visit to Yemen in 2019, he waited for Houthi militants, to be allowed to travel to the north of the country and was trapped in the desert city of Marib for several days. “I was tired of traveling and the heat, I did not eat well and I tried to finish my reports, but if something happens, nothing will happen quickly in Yemen,” he said.
And he remembers that one of his friends invited him to visit his relatives who had been displaced by the war and lived in the city for lunch, where Faizah’s mother cooked different kinds of food, and it may be after sunrise. Starting to cook, he prefers to eat a honey cake called “Bint Al-Sahan” that he had not eaten before. He describes how they talked about politics and war and how they played and joked with the children. The youngest of them was a beautiful girl named Khadijah who was not more than two months old and this meeting was reminiscent of her normal life. There are families who live their daily lives and wish they had written reports about what he has experienced, and that life is not just death and depression in Yemen.
We were very moved when a letter from a family member told her that Khadijeh had fallen ill, had a fever and had died. His parents tried to take her to the hospital but there was no doctor to help her. “I think a lot about her short life and there has always been war for the Yemenis and there is no place to ignore them for a long time,” he added. And if some people want to share their difficult and painful experience with me, like Khadijah’s family, then I have a duty to continue my work. Talking is what the people of the country have and what they do, and it is an honor that I take seriously. “
And you can see that the newspaper editors have done a great job with what they do because they think it’s important, and many newspapers do not devote resources and support to such efforts.
The author believes that one of the reasons that kept Yemen off the radar for a long time is the closure of its land and air borders, because none of the refugees left because of the war, even if 3 million Yemenis left because of it. If the Yemenis made their way to the shores of Greece and the countries of southern Europe and began to say what they were exposed without the fear of the groups involved, the pressure on Western countries selling arms to warring countries would increase.
