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What’s the impact in Yemen of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia?

The conflict in Yemen, which started in 2015, has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The fighting is between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels, supported by Iran.

Britain has been supplying Saudi Arabia some of the arms that have been used in the conflict.

Concerns these weapons have been used to commit war crimes led to a legal challenge and last year the UK Court of Appeal ruled it was unlawful for the UK government to export arms used in the conflict without checking violations had taken place.

Ministers then had to reassess their arms export decisions and stop new exports. Last week the government said it had examined this and would restart supplying the Saudis because any historical violations were β€œisolated incidents”.

Where does this leave our involvement in the conflict?

Nawal Al-Maghafi reports.

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