Over 11,000 children have been killed or maimed as a result of the Yemen war.
According to the United Nations, more than 11,000 children have been killed or disabled in Yemen’s civil conflict since it erupted over eight years ago.
“The actual toll of this conflict is likely to be substantially greater,” the UNICEF children’s organization stated of the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster.
“Thousands of children have died, and hundreds of thousands more face death from avoidable sickness or malnutrition,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said.
According to UNICEF, around 2.2 million Yemeni children are critically malnourished, with one-quarter of them under the age of five, and the majority are at high risk of cholera, measles, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses.
Yemen’s conflict began in 2014, with Iran-backed Huthi rebels seizing the capital Sanaa, forcing Saudi-led forces to invade the following year to prop up the government.
Hundreds of thousands of people have perished subsequently, either directly as a result of warfare or indirectly as a result of poor drinking water, disease epidemics, famine, and other consequences.
The newest figures from the organization show 3,774 child fatalities between March 2015 and September 2022.
