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States: Saudi Arabia and Port City

states: These comparisons do not make America look great, according to Rabble. Since 2015, Yemen has been subjected to unrelenting airstrikes by Saudi Arabia, with critical support and arms from the United States, slaughtering the civilian population. Juxtapose this outpouring of compassion and solidarity with the catastrophe facing millions of children in Yemen, and the ongoing debacle created here in the United States by President Donald Trump with the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. The recent siege of the port city of Hodeida has forced at least 121,000 civilians to flee. More than 8 million are on the verge of starvation, and another 22 million people, 80 per cent of the population, are relying on humanitarian aid that is coming in through this port. Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni scholar and activist based in the U.S., told the Democracy Now! news hour Any kind of disruption to the aid that's coming in through the port of Hodeidah means the starvation of millions of Yemenis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.