{"id":16249,"date":"2019-03-05T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16249"},"modified":"2019-03-05T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:13:11","slug":"in-yemen-war-can-reach-children-wherever-they-are-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/in-yemen-war-can-reach-children-wherever-they-are-un\/","title":{"rendered":"In Yemen, war can reach children wherever they are: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Yemeni child is treated at a hospital in the coastal city of al-Hudaydah, Yemen, on October 6, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The United Nations\u2019 children\u2019s agency says the war in Yemen continues to take a \u201chorrific toll\u201d on children despite a partial ceasefire between the parties to the conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNICEF released a statement<\/a> on Saturday, three days after violence killed five children in the Tahita District in the western province of Hudaydah, which has been subject to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The body\u2019s Executive Director Henrietta Fore said, \u201cIn Yemen, children can no longer safely do the things that all children love to do, like go to school or spend time with their friends outside. The war can reach them wherever they are, even in their own homes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEach day, eight children are killed or injured across 31 active conflict zones in the country,\u201d she said, adding that \u201ctalks and conferences have so far done little to change the reality for children on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly a comprehensive peace agreement can give Yemeni children the reprieve from violence and war that they need and deserve,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

An agreement on a ceasefire in Hudaydah was reached in Sweden late last year between Yemen\u2019s Saudi Arabian-backed former regime and the country\u2019s Houthi Ansarullah movement.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies have been waging a war on Yemen for the past five years to restore the former regime, which resigned and fled the country amid popular discontent.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization says some 10,000 people have been killed since the coalition launched the war, but rights groups put the death toll at five times higher.<\/p>\n

The Saudi-led invaders have also blockaded Yemen, causing widespread famine. On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said tens of thousands of children under the age of five had died of starvation ever since the warfare started.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Over 80,000 Yemeni kids have died of starvation: UN<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The UN chief says over 80,000 kids under the age of five have died of starvation in Yemen ever since the Saudi-led aggression on the country began in March 2015.<\/a><\/div>\n

\u201cChildren did not start the war in Yemen, but they are paying the highest price,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cSome 360,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, fighting for their lives every day. And one credible report put the number of children under 5 who have died of starvation at more than 80,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

And last Monday, Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF\u2019s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said that the \u201cmind-boggling violence\u201d in Yemen had affected every child in the country one way or another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Yemeni child is treated at a hospital in the coastal city of al-Hudaydah, Yemen, on October 6, 2018. (Photo by AFP) The United Nations\u2019 children\u2019s agency says the war in Yemen continues to take a \u201chorrific toll\u201d on children despite a partial ceasefire between the parties to the conflict. UNICEF released a statement on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}