"The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman noted that this Feb. 27 bombing was the bloodiest airstrike since another 41 Yemenis were massacred in the US-backed coalition bombing of market in the northern city of Saada five months earlier. In March 2015, the coalition bombed a refugee camp in the north, killing 40 Yemenis and wounding 200 more." "The U.S.-backed bombing and Saudi blockade of Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, has led to mass starvation. Approximately 14.4 million Yemenis — more than half of the population of the country — were food insecure, the Food and Agriculture Organization said in January, and hunger is growing."