Saudi warplanes carpet-bomb Yemen with US help. This must end | Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna

The US must end all support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen. It is fueling the largest humanitarian crisis in the world

The recent breaching of the United States' embassy in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa by rebel forces, and the detaining of Yemeni employees of the embassy, is the latest escalation in a war that has gone on for far too long. It is a war that the United States has supported and remains deeply involved in. It's time for that complicity to end.

For more than six years, Saudi-led military intervention into Yemen's civil war on behalf of Yemen's exiled government against Yemeni rebels has been a key driver of the largest humanitarian disaster in the world. The country's economy has reached new depths of collapse, and a third wave of the pandemic is threatening to crash the country's already fragile healthcare system," United Nations humanitarian relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said in September, with millions a step away from starvation".

Bernie Sanders is a US senator, and the ranking member of the Senate budget committee. He represents the state of Vermont.

Rohit Khanna is a US representative from California's 17th congressional district