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Yemen’s humanitarian situation was already grim before the country fell back into full-blown civil war this month. Now, the renewed fighting between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces is exacerbating long-running challenges. Top aid organizations are raising grave concerns about the conditions that millions of Yemenis are facing while warning that growing insecurity on the ground and inadequate funding are making it difficult to deliver assistance.

Carl Skau, the acting executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), told Foreign Policy last week that the situation in Yemen was a “huge concern.” Skau visited Yemen several weeks ago to draw attention to “what we feared” could happen, but he said he “couldn’t have imagined” the “scale and the speed of the escalation since.”

Yemen’s humanitarian situation was already grim before the country fell back into full-blown civil war this month. Now, the renewed fighting between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces is exacerbating long-running challenges. Top aid organizations are raising grave concerns about the conditions that millions of Yemenis are facing while warning that growing insecurity on the ground and inadequate funding are making it difficult to deliver assistance.

Carl Skau, the acting executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), told Foreign Policy last week that the situation in Yemen was a “huge concern.” Skau visited Yemen several weeks ago to draw attention to “what we feared” could happen, but he said he “couldn’t have imagined” the “scale........

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