The war on Yemen: between the justice of the cause and the extent of human suffering

Abstract

When you defend an issue that is considered just for you and the people to which you belong, you will spare no effort in exerting all the elements of force - whatever its size - to defend and prove its justice, unlike the aggressor. This approach is the starting point of our current study, where the study will seek to identify at first the concept of just war and unjust war and the criteria to achieve those concepts in relation to the war in Yemen for nearly five years, by looking at the international legal and ethical standards For th war. Evidence of war is not fair, and then stand over justice of the war, which Yemenis are fighting, and then the possibility of launching the name “fair war”.

On the other hand, it will become clear that the war launched by Saudi Arabia against Yemen is unfair - in accordance with the international and legal standards and conditions in determining the fairness of any war. In addition to highlighting the magnitude of the human suffering by the Yemeni people since the beginning of this war, which has caused - beyond any doubt - a humanitarian catastrophe according to international and humanitarian reports, which we will indicate during the study.

The study reached a number of results, the most important of which are: Yemen's war against Saudi aggression is fair and just according to the standards of just war, because it carries a just cause, and did not target Saudi civilians. The result is that the war launched by the Saudi-led coalition forces is not fair by the internationally accepted standards of just war. The study also revealed the fairness of the cause for which the Yemeni people are fighting, regardless of their names and their political and non-political components. The third conclusion of the study is that:

War was and is still the main reason that led to a humanitarian catastrophe and the magnitude of the human suffering caused by this war on the people of Yemen, and other consequences that will be contained in this study.