Saturday, October 03, 2015

500 Yemen children killed in 6 months of Saudi war: UN...

The United Nations says over 500 Yemeni children have been killed and nearly two million people are at risk of malnutrition, some six months into the Saudi regime’s military campaign against the impoverished Arab nation.

Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Friday that 505 children have been killed and 702 others wounded since late March, when Saudi Arabia unleashed deadly air raids on Yemen.

“The situation for children is deteriorating every single day, and it is horrific,” Boulierac said.

The UN official also warned of the dire humanitarian situation in the country, which has deteriorated since Riyadh started its military aggression in Yemen, with the aim of undermining the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restoring power to its ally, the country’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

According to Boulierac, some 1.7 million Yemeni children are currently at risk of malnutrition. Full story...

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