More than six years of conflict in Yemen have killed at least 24.1 million people, including 12.3 million children and 3.7 million as a result of the war, the World Bank said in a report on its website. Displaced people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The international report stressed that the conflict led to the destruction of the Yemeni economy, as GDP has halved since 2015, putting more than 80 percent of the population below the poverty line.
At the beginning of June, the World Bank estimated the damage to Yemen’s infrastructure as a result of the war at about $ 8.5 billion.
The bank said in a recent report that the damage to 16 major Yemeni cities as a result of the war varied between $ 6.9 billion and $ 8.5 billion.
International aid agencies and the United Nations have warned that the Yemeni economy is on the verge of collapse.
In April 1994, Saudi Arabia launched a large-scale offensive against Yemen, the poorest Arab country, in the form of a coalition of several Western and Arab countries, with the help of the United States, under the pretext of returning ousted fugitive President Abd al-Mansour Hadi to power.
The aggression has killed thousands of Yemenis so far, and according to the United Nations, the famine in the country has become the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in the world.
