Children make up a quarter of all civilian deaths in Yemen war, charity warns
Britain urged to stop arming the war and supplying the Saudis with the aircraft that are dropping the bombs on Yemen’s children
A malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, in November 2019
ALMOST a quarter of the civilians who died in Yemen in the last three years were children, a humanitarian aid charity reported today.
An analysis by Save the Children revealed that 2,341 minors died in the war-torn country between 2018 and 2020.
The six-year conflict between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the Western-backed government’s forces has already caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with 1.8 million children under five suffering from moderate acute malnutrition.
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