Ensure that all factions are cut off from the weapons that they require to continue the bloodletting of the Yemeni people by immediately pausing all weapons sales and military assistance to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and any active member of the Saudi-led coalition until peace is secured and their forces are withdrawn from Yemeni territory, and maintaining American support for the United Nations arms embargo on the Houthis.Clearly and publicly state that the Saudi blockade of Yemen’s ports - a form of collective punishment against innocent Yemenis - must be lifted unconditionally, as global international humanitarian leaders have long sought.Clearly and publicly state that Yemen belongs to the Yemeni people and only the Yemeni people.Clearly and publicly state that the United States will not provide any further support in any form to any faction party to the conflict while diplomatic talks to end the war are ongoing and should they fail to reach a diplomatic settlement and return to armed hostilities.The lawmakers are urging President Biden and his Administration to: Yemen is currently the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with over 4 million Yemenis displaced and an estimated 80% of the country’s 30 million people reliant on some form of assistance for their survival. While these developments provide a reason to hope that an end to the 8-year war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen is within reach, we must acknowledge that there are still major obstacles to a lasting settlement that require careful attention and diplomatic engagement from the United States,” wrote the members.Īs we approach the 8th Anniversary of the Yemen War, the country remains stuck in a devastating cycle of conflict and humanitarian crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. “We write to applaud the recent diplomatic progress made by the warring parties in Yemen, and to express our profound hope that the recent visit of Saudi officials to Houthi-controlled Sanaa and prisoner swaps mark the beginning of a major breakthrough in a conflict that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. support for the Saudi war effort, which has been criticized by human rights groups and some in Congress, began during the Obama administration and has continued in fits and starts for seven years. The indiscriminate bombings have become a hallmark of the Yemen war, drawing international scrutiny of the countries participating in the air campaign, and those arming them, including the United States. While Russia’s bombings of a maternity hospital and other civilian targets in Ukraine have drawn widespread public indignation as war crimes, thousands of similar strikes have taken place against Yemeni civilians without the American public taking much notice. The devastating violence has killed at least 159,248 people, according to conservative estimates by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), which monitors war zones around the world. military participation for the Saudi-led war, where airstrikes in Yemen have been called war crimes but the United States supported the majority of air force squadrons involved. The House has repeatedly voted to cut all U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone joined Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Congressman Ro Khanna and 39 of their colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden and his military policy team in support of ongoing diplomacy to end the eight-year-long war in Yemen.
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