UNICEF reports:
UNICEF executive director has reported that since 2015, Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has left more than 11,000 children killed or maimed with several more still at danger due to diseases, malnutrition.
Over 11,000 Yemeni children killed, maimed in Saudi-led war
12 Dec 2022 - 13:04
UNICEF reports:
UNICEF executive director has reported that since 2015, Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has left more than 11,000 children killed or maimed with several more still at danger due to diseases, malnutrition.
Thousands of children have lost their lives while hundreds of thousands more remain at risk of death from preventable disease or starvation, Catherine Russell said on Monday.
“The true toll of this conflict is likely to be far higher,” said Russell, commenting on the casualties of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
About 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, one quarter of them aged under five, and most are at extreme risk from cholera, measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, she added.
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, including women and children, have been killed since the beginning of the war as Saudi-led forces bomb them or shoot them, or indirectly through mine explosions, unsafe drinking water, disease outbreaks, lack of medicine and treatment due to the imposed siege, hunger and other impacts.
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