Saudi Arabia and its allies killed 68 children in impoverished Yemen in the course of three months last year, a new report says.
Saudi Arabia and its allies killed 68 children in impoverished Yemen in the course of three months last year, a new report says.
According to a confidential document obtained by al-Jazeera news broadcaster, the Saudi-led military coalition killed 68 children and wounded 36 others in war-torn Yemen from July to September 2017.
The report said on Friday that the figures from excerpts it had obtained from a confidential report by the UN Office on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) was sent to the UN Security Council on January 19.
Furthermore, the document found that there were at least 20 Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on different localities in Yemen, some targeting schools and homes, on a daily basis.
According to the UN children’s aid agency, UNICEF, more than 5,000 children have lost their lives or sustained injuries in the imposed war — an average of five children a day — since the Saudi war began some three years ago. It has also warned that over 11 million Yemeni children are in need of humanitarian aid.
