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FILE PHOTO A man receives food ration from a charity food distribution in Sanaa, Yemen
The US, UK, and French governments are behind millions of people starving in Yemen because they are "supporting this war," an Oxfam representative told RT, urging London to stop beefing up Saudi Arabia's military.
"We have 14 million people starving," Richard Stanforth, Oxfam UK's regional policy officer for the Middle East, said.
"British, French, American governments are all behind this, they are all supporting this war."
Stanforth blamed the British government in particular, saying that London should stop its arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is accused of targeting food supplies and even no-strike locations in Yemen.
"We've seen attacks on water infrastructure, on hospitals, warehouses of food. This pattern is continuing. Certainly, it's the airstrikes that are killing most civilians," he said.
Stanforth says
Riyadh's bombing is not sparing humanitarian sites either... including that of Oxfam. Saudi Arabia is
"aware of many of these locations" and along with the UAE, it is still hitting them, he added.
Western states have been widely criticized by rights groups for their continued arms sales to Riyadh. However, turning the tide on multibillion-dollar deals may not be so easy.
Comment: Redirecting blame to their adversaries is a standard in the Western playbook. Pompeo is following suit. If the Yemeni war came to a ceasefire and negotiations were to be effective, the US and Israel would lose this opportunistic scenario to pin on Iran.