October 18 | Yamanyoon
UN organizations raise the alarm about the humanitarian situation, which is threatening the majority of the population.
In this context, the United Nations Children’s Fund revealed, “UNICEF” that the war in Yemen in 1163 caused the deaths of a child, and injuring 1730, since March / March 2015 to September / September last.
A spokesman for UNICEF in Yemen, Muhammad al-Asadi, during a press conference held Monday, October 17 / October within the organization’s headquarters in the province of Hodeidah that these figures are low as UNICEF estimates that the number of children killed or injured as a result much higher.
Asadi said the million and 300 thousand children are at risk of acute respiratory infections and 2,000,600 thousand children under the age of five are at risk of measles, and 350 thousand students have been deprived of school education last year due to the closure of 780 schools were destroyed either fully or partially, 1,000,500 A. There children in the age of education outside the schools.
The spokesman for UNICEF said that 1,000,500 thousand children under the age of five are at risk of malnutrition this year, including 370 thousand children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
Between war and truce Yemenis remain at the mercy of politicians and politics, which are not understood by children who taste greatly during the past years.