other aid is transported from the port city Hodeidah. After the attack, Oxfam issued a statement warning that the bridges destruction threatens to leave many more people unable to feed themselves, worsening an already catastrophic situation in the country. The main road between Sanaa and Hodeidah has also been repeatedly hit as part of a larger intentional strategy.The U.N. and various human rights organizations have accused Saudi-led forces of numerous war crimes, documenting scores of coalition attacks on a wide array of civilian areas, including hospitals, schools, homes and refugee camps.Agricultural infrastructure has been targeted in particular. Given that Yemen is still a largely agricultural nation, with more than half the population reliant on farming in some way, the bombing has had a horrific impact.At least 357 agricultural targets have been bombed in Yemens 20 provinces. In addition to markets, stores, factories and food trucks, the Western-backed coalition has bombed farms, animals, water infrastructure and agricultural banks.At least more than 7,600 people have been killed and 42,000 injured since March 2015, the majority in air strikes by the Saudi-led multinational coalition that backs the Sunni government. The UN has also repeatedly reported that the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition is responsible for nearly two-thirds of the 4,100 civilian deaths, whereas Houthi rebels and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have been responsible for less than one-fourth of civilian deaths. Extremist groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, which have been strenghtened by the war, were responsible for the rest.Yet these are tallies of deaths caused by warring parties; they could pale in comparison to the possibly enormous number of Yemenis who might die from starvation and malnutrition.Since June 2015 nongovernmental organizations have warned that more than 80 percent of Yemens population (at least 21 million people) is in desperate need of humanitarian aid, including food, water and medicine. The Saudi blockade has made the already disastrous effects of the bombing even worse.Despite this conflict that has been raging in Yemen since 2015, the desperation in the region is such that people from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea remain undeterred to thread on the perilous routes only to encounter dangerous conditions when they get there. To paraphrase the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, they continue to flee their lands, as home won't let them stay.Just how dangerous this journey can be was made clear last month, when the coalition forces attacked a boat carrying 150 Somali refugees, hit by a helicopter and a military ship near the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. At least 42 were killed.Since 2013, nearly 290,000 refugees and migrants have landed on the Yemeni coast. Nearly 80 percent of these were Ethiopians, and most of the rest were Somalis. Most journey to Yemen in the hope of using it as a transit point, while others look to stay in Yemen, often unaware of the dangers. Between January 2006 and April 2016, more than 700,000 persons reportedly crossed from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, with Somalis mostly staying in Yemen as refugees and Ethiopians travelling onwards to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf