At least 47 children have been killed or maimed in January and February in Yemen’s civil war, UNICEF, the United Nations children’s fund reported. At least 10,000 children have been injured or killed since 2015 in the conflict between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces backed by the Saudi-led military coalition.
“Just over the first two months of this year, 47 children were reportedly killed or maimed in several locations across Yemen,” Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF representative to Yemen, said in a statement.
In addition, according to a report released by the UN Security Council in January, nearly 2,000 children recruited by the Houthis died fighting in the civil war between January 2020 and May 2021. Hundreds of thousands of people have died due to Yemen’s civil war in a conflict that has caused the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the UN.