UNICEF: Yemen's Hell War Effects for the Life of Children

UNICEF: Yemen's Hell War Effects for the Life of Children

The UNICEF report in Yemen shows more than 11 million children, or around 80 percent of the country's population under the age of 18, facing the threat of food shortages, illness, displacement and lack of access to social services.

"The conflict has made Yemen a life hell for children," said Meritxell Relano, UNICEF representative in Yemen, as reported by Reuters.

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According to UNICEF's record, an agency under the auspices of the United Nations, around 8.4 million of the 28 million people in Yemen are believed to be on the verge of starvation and another 22 million depend on humanitarian assistance.

"An estimated 1.8 million children are malnourished. "Nearly 400 thousand have acute malnutrition and they have to fight every day to maintain their lives," he added.

UNICEF has provided medical assistance to 244 thousand under-five children who are malnourished with treatment since early 2018. The institute also provides micronutreine care to more than 317 thousand children under five.

Residents inspect buildings damaged by the air strike of the Saudi Arabian coalition in Amran, Yemen, June 25, 2018. Saudi Arabia's coalition attack killed eight people, who were one family. 

The UN Humanitarian Institution Coordinator, Lise Grande, said that parties related to the conflict were obliged to protect civilians, and civilian infrastructure, as well as ensuring that people had access to the assistance they had the right and need to survive.

"The price of human life and the humanitarian impact of this conflict cannot be justified," he said in a statement.

The Yemeni war was motivated by a conflict between a coalition of Arab Sunni Muslim countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis who won Iranian support. The Saudi Arabian coalition blocked the Yamans import route so that it slowed aid to Yemen.

source. tempo.co