2020-05-21
By Sarah Hassan
There is nothing surprising in the UN's attitude during conflict times like this. The Shia extremists controlling north and western Yemen who seem to have as many ballistic missiles as they wish keep firing them on a small city run by the legitimate government amidst near absolute ignorance by the world body.
Despite the UN pressures for des-escalation and an extended truce unilaterally declared by the Arab Coalition and the government on 9th April, the Houthis fired a missile into the eastern "city of IDPs" early Thursday hitting a neighborhood but fortunately incurring no human injuries.
It is almost the fifth missile to be fired into the overpopulated city within a month. No condemnation is often heard from the UN officials over these war crimes. Neither the UN peace mediator nor the Humanitarian Coordinator. Both of them exhibit a motherly sympathy with Houthis hurting whenever they are in trouble or claim they are in one.