Local Editor
It is more than two years since the conflict in Yemen escalated and airstrikes began. Children in the war-torn country are bearing the brunt.
According to Save the Children, at least 1,546 children have been killed and 2,450 maimed since March 2015.
The organization accused all the warring parties for being “guilty of violations of international law, adding that homes, schools, and hospitals have been attacked.
Grant Pritchard, Save the Children’s Interim Country Director for Yemen, said”
“… in this crisis children are not just being bombed – they are also being starved. The Saudi-led coalition is stopping vital supplies getting in by sea, while warring parties are detaining aid workers and obstructing deliveries by land. Millions of children and their families have no idea where their next meal is coming from, or where the next bomb will fall.”
Pritchard added “The international community must now do more to stand up for the children whose lives are at stake – making sure aid and vital commercial supplies for Yemen get where they need to go, that the woefully underfunded UN appeal for Yemen is fully funded, and that all parties are held accountable for violations of international law.”
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. Local Yemeni sources have put the death toll from the Saudi war at over 12,000, including many women and children.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
