ALBAWABA - More than 11,000 Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since 2015, UNICEF said in a report.
More than 11,000 Yemeni children have been either martyred or maimed since the Saudi-led aggression against the impoverished country began in 2015, according to the executive director of UNICEF.#YemenCantWait https://t.co/9to1hdrHZq
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Social media pages were splashed by urgent appeals for money to help Yemenis cope with the disaster of the war that has wrecked the lives of millions of people.
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.#MalaysiaNow #MNow #Yemen #UnitedNations https://t.co/0H0Vfdkh6D
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UNICEF's chief in Yemen Catherine Russell said since a truce was not renewed in Yemen in October, 62 additional children were either killed or injured in just one month until November.
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"Thousands of children have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands more remain at risk of death from preventable disease or starvation," Russell was quoted as saying by AFP.
The United Nations children agency estimates that 2.2 million youngsters are acutely malnourished, including nearly 540,000 under five years of age, who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
— Hodhod Yemen News Agency (@HodhodYemenNews) December 11, 2022
The U.N. reports that at least 74 children were among the 164 people killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance between July and September alone.
