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The conflict in Yemen is so long-standing that these days it only warrants media coverage when over 40 children die in a targeted airstrike on a school bus. 1 Even more forgotten is the starvation and severe levels of food insecurity that existed long before the conflict began in 2015. 2 Yemen now suffers from severe famine with an estimated 8.4 million people on the verge of starvation. 3 The situation at hand warrants consideration of three questions:(1) is the famine in Yemen a war crime?;(2) if so, why has this war crime disappeared into the shadows?; and (3) what is the way forward?