It’s long past time to end the vile war in Yemen.

A war crime almost from its inception — when a Saudi-led coalition entered a Yemeni civil war to topple the fundamentalist Houthis from power, and quickly turned to indiscriminately bombing the country’s civilian population — the three-year war has only reached new lows of moral depravity as the years have ticked on.

A Saudi blockade, coupled with the country’s deliberate targeting of food supplies, has pushed Yemen to the edge of the worst famine in one hundred years, producing sickening image after sickening image of malnourished children, a fraction of the 13 million people now at risk of starvation. The Saudis, who by now have dropped all pretense of going after military targets in the country, have bombed homes, schools, markets, mosques, factories, hospitals, weddings, a school bus full of children, and much else, killing at least ten thousand people so far, with children making up a fifth of the civilian deaths. The Saudi forces’ destruction of civilian infrastructure has also produced two cholera outbreaks in three years, affecting more than 1 million people, close to half of whom were children.