The war in Yemen has been designed specifically to maximize human suffering. When Saudi Arabia formed an international coalition to militarily intervene in the civil war in 2015, it began by bombing cultural monuments, schools, farms, infrastructure, water treatment facilities, and hospitals. They then imposed a naval and air blockade over rebel Houthi-controlled territory, which kicked off waves of starvation, malnutrition, and famine conditions . For their part, the Houthi ...