Millions of people across Yemen are enduring a war now in its eighth year – but recent deadly attacks by both Saudi-led coalition forces and opposition Houthi fighters suggest the conflict is only intensifying.

The UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen recently said that January would be the most deadly month of a war in which the UN estimates at least 377,000 have been killed. His forecast follows the killing of at least 91 people in an air-raid on a temporary detention centre in Saada, a city in northwestern Yemen under Houthi control. The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally-recognised government denies involvement. A separate coalition air raid in Hodeidah on the same day killed three children, according to Save The Children.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned both attacks and has urged an investigation. But there was no immediate sign of condemnation of the Saada attack by the UN Security Council – in marked contrast to its rapid denunciation “in the strongest terms” of recent Houthi attacks on sites in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in which three people were killed.

The escalation in violence in January has forced hundreds more families to flee their homes, joining an estimated 4.6 million people in Yemen who have already been internally displaced over the course of the war. And aid agencies say the fighting is complicating efforts to get essential food, medicine and to those who need it.

In this episode of The Stream, we will look at the impact on civilians of a worsening war in Yemen that rarely tops the news headlines.

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