{"id":7711,"date":"2019-07-01T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7711-7-500-kids-killed-or-maimed-in-yemen-since-2013-un-says\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:10:29","slug":"7-500-kids-killed-or-maimed-in-yemen-since-2013-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7711-7-500-kids-killed-or-maimed-in-yemen-since-2013-un-says\/","title":{"rendered":"7,500 kids &#8216;killed or maimed&#8217; in Yemen since 2013, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The suffering of children caught up in the Yemen conflict has become &#8220;simply appalling,&#8221; according to a UN report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The suffering of children caught up in the Yemen conflict has become &#8220;simply appalling,&#8221; according to a UN report. It says thousands of kids have been killed, recruited as soldiers and subjected to devastating violence.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,500 children have been killed or wounded in Yemen over the past 5 1\/2 years, the UN said in a report published Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The impoverished Arab country descended into conflict in 2014, leading to what has been described as the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres documented thousands of grave violations against children between April 2013 and December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suffering of children in Yemen has worsened during the reporting period, becoming simply appalling,&#8221; Virginia Gamba, the UN special representative for children in conflict, said. &#8220;The civilian population, especially children, is kept hostage of a conflict they didn&#8217;t choose to be in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The war in Yemen broke out in 2014 when Houthi rebels overran the capital, Sanaa, and drove President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into exile. In early 2015, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, and aligned with Hadi, joined the fighting. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suffering of children caught up in the Yemen conflict has become &#8220;simply appalling,&#8221; according to a UN report. \u00a0 The suffering of children caught up in the Yemen conflict has become &#8220;simply appalling,&#8221; according to a UN report. 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