Top U.N. official to call on U.S. to reverse terrorist designation for Houthis
warning of mass famine
A top United Nations official is calling on the U.S. to reverse the decision to label Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis as a terrorist organization, warning the step will cause a mass famine in a country already suffering tragedy of unfathomable proportions.
Mark Lowcock, the head of the U.N. agency responsible for delivering urgent humanitarian assistance in crisis, is expected in remarks to be delivered Thursday to the U.N. Security Council to lay out the dire consequences and a stunning rebuke of the U.S. moving forward on the Houthi terrorist designation.
In remarks obtained by The Hill, Lowcock unequivocally calls for a reversal of the decision and that desperately needed humanitarian assistance and food delivery to the north of the country would effectively stop, despite U.S. assurances they would not be affected.
"First, what is the likely humanitarian impact? The answer is a large-scale famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly forty years," read Lowcock's remarks.
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The Saudis have been bombing the shit out of them using cluster munitions. Who's the terrorist?