Food, a deadly weapon of war for people of Yemen this Christmas

Oxfam Ireland's Colm Byrne reflects on the crisis in Yemen after visiting the country last summer

Oxfam has been working in the Middle East since the 1950s. It is a region marked by crisis. Most people are aware of the ongoing war in Syria and the massive displacement and human casualty resulting from it. This Christmas, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley alone, 350,000 Syrian refugees are surviving their ninth winter far from home in horribly inadequate refugee camps. But another conflict in the region, that is now in its fourth year, has failed to receive the same level of international attention and outcry.