Saudis try to starve Yemen into submission," was the headline, and it was no exaggeration. As the Times noted, there are nearly seven million people in Yemen, including millions of children, who are facing famine. "At least 10,000 people have been killed, many by Saudi-coalition bombings carried out with military assistance by the United States," the editorial stated.

The famine and shortages of medicine result from the Saudis deliberately blockading Yemeni ports, including Hodeida, through which 80 percent of Yemen's food imports arrive. Combined with the destruction of Yemen's water and sanitation infrastructure, the Saudi war and blockade has also delivered the world's worst cholera epidemic to Yemen. More than 900,000 people have been sickened, and although cholera is normally easily treatable, thousands have died.