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In the heart of London, protesters gathered on Sunday to voice outrage at Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in neighbouring Yemen.

It’s been two years since Saudi fighter jets launched a bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthi revolutionaries, after they gained control of a number of cities and forced former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee the nation.

The protest started at Marble Arch before they walked through London Oxford street towards the BBC offices where the protest summited.

Many of the protestors - whom most of them were Muslim - carrying signs emblazed with “Hands off Yemen” & “End Yemen Siege”, expressed their anger at the lack of media coverage of the conflict in Yemen and the fact that western governments, including Great Britain, are continuing to sell arms to Saudi Arabia despite the evidence that the weapons being sold to Saudi Arabia are being used to murder unarmed civilians, including women and children.

The protest in London was just one of many similar protests taking place around the world on the same day. Thousands more activists came out in countries such as France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, the USA, Canada, Lebanon and Yemen.

One London based Yemeni activist, Kim Sharif said “We have a very dire humanitarian situation, we want the illegally enforced blockade, by the Saudi coalition, to be lifted immediately to save millions of lives.”

Kim continued to say “children, the elderly and many civilians are dying every day. They are facing famine, the air raids must stop!”.

Allegations of war crimes have been made by many who have covered the conflict since it began over two years ago. The UN humanitarian aid office has said this year that the death toll of civilians in Yemen has passed 10,000 while approximately 17 million people need 'urgent assistance'.