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According to the United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF], the Saudi aggression against Yemen has killed more than 130 children over the past two months, as it said in a statement on Sunday.

The UNICEF said in a statement on Sunday that, "Since the conflict escalated in March, as many as 135 children have been killed and 260 injured".

The UN body said that one-third of the deaths occurred in Yemen’s southern coastal city of Aden that has been hit by violent clashes over the past few days.

The UNICEF furthermore called on all sides involved in the Yemeni conflict to abide by international laws, which call for the protection of children’s lives.

"Children should not continue to pay the price of the violence in Yemen. All parties to the conflict are obligated under international humanitarian law to protect children from harm," it said.

"But only a complete end to hostilities can protect the children of Yemen. They are the future of Yemen," the statement said.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

According to the UN, nearly 2,000 people have been killed and 7,330 injured since March due to the conflict in Yemen.