Court ruling + reports The Arms Trade — Western Weapons in Yemen

Since the Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen's war in 2015, the US and UK have supplied the bombs. The UK alone has sent an estimated $23 billion in weapons — Paveway guided bombs, Typhoon and Tornado jets, Brimstone and Storm Shadow missiles, all admitted by the UK government to have been deployed in Yemen. The Yemen Data Project attributes at least 8,983 civilian deaths to coalition airstrikes that hit homes, hospitals, schools, markets and a school bus. In 2019 the UK Court of Appeal ruled the government had acted unlawfully in licensing these sales without properly assessing humanitarian-law violations — yet did not order exports halted, and sales resumed in 2020. Amnesty notes US/UK arms transfers to Saudi Arabia vastly exceeded the aid those same governments sent to Yemen. A documented case of profit and complicity outrunning the law.