Oxfam: More than 1,000 children killed in Yemen in a year

More than 300 children have been killed across Yemen in a year since the coalition airstrike on a school bus in Saada province, killing 41 children and wounding nearly 600, Oxfam International said today. International arms sales to the coalition countries.

A total of 335 children have been killed since August 9, 2018, in separate attacks, including airstrikes, mines and shelling, the equivalent of eight other school buses.

Many people died of hunger and disease, according to UN reports, in a massive humanitarian crisis following the aggression on Yemen.

“The world has already been appalled by the attack that killed many innocent schoolchildren, yet one child has been killed almost every day since then, and violence continues to pose a daily threat to Yemenis,” said Mohsen Siddiqui, Oxfam’s Yemen office director. Besides their suffering due to hunger and disease.

“The Yemeni people urgently need an immediate ceasefire throughout Yemen before more lives are lost due to this abhorrent conflict that continues to fuel the humanitarian catastrophe. All parties to the conflict and influential people must do all they can to end this war,” he said. Lethal now. “

He pointed out that last week’s attack on a market in Saada province killed at least 10 civilians, including children, while in Taiz, five other children were wounded by the shelling.

The report monitored the killing of 10 children in coalition airstrikes on al-Dhali governorate in southern Yemen, while in March five children were killed in clashes in the city of Taiz.

The report noted that there were 30 incidents involving schools and 18 incidents involving hospitals.

“Seventy years after the Geneva Convention, which seeks to protect civilians in and around war zones, children in Yemen continue to find themselves in the line of fire,” Siddiqui said. “The international community must focus on protecting Yemeni civilians and ending this war, not benefiting. Through the sale of weapons. ”