Tamer Kirolos, the county director for Save the Children in Yemen, said “We are horrified that some 85,000 children in Yemen may have died because of extreme hunger since the war began. For every child killed by bombs and bullets, dozens are starving to death and it’s entirely preventable.”
The United Nations estimates that nearly 14 million Yemenis are at risk of famine, while classifying the war as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Following American concern about civilian casualties in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the US military involvement is mostly ineffective due to coalition's airstrikes targeting civilians and hospitals. In 2015, the United States deployed The Green Berets to assist the Saudi Arabian military with missile interception
The United States Navy said it will begin a new task force with allied countries to patrol the Red Sea after a series of attacks attributed to Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a waterway that is essential to global trade.
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