Child hunger in Yemen has soared to alarming levels after six months of intense bombardments launched by the Saudi-led, coalition alert Unicef. Child malnutrition levels have increased, after nearly two million children in the country do not have access to sufficient food and water.
According to figures from UNICEF (International Emergency Fund United Nations Children) child hunger in Yemen is alarming after six months of intense fighting, reports Al Jazeera .
The organization says that 96,000 children are starving and on the brink of death in the port city of Al Hudaydah, west Yemen, on the shores of the Red Sea. In addition, it is estimated that approximately 8,000 children suffer severe malnutrition in the future in the port city of Aden next year.
"This conflict is a tragedy, especially for Yemeni children," Julien Harneis complaint, UNICEF representative in Yemen. "Children are being killed there by bombs or bullets and those who survive are faced with the growing threat of disease and malnutrition. This can not be allowed," he laments.
Nearly two million children across Yemen does not have access to enough food or water while fighting in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, led by Saudi Arabia is stepping up its bombing coalition intensifies.
Since last March 26 coalition, which supports the ousted president Mansur Hadi Abd rhabdo launches air strikes against areas controlled by the hutíes Yemen Shiite rebel movement Ansar Hereafter.
Child hunger in Yemen has soared to alarming levels after six months of intense bombardments launched by the Saudi-led, coalition alert Unicef. Child malnutrition levels have increased, after nearly two million children in the country do not have access to sufficient food and water.
According to figures from UNICEF (International Emergency Fund United Nations Children) child hunger in Yemen is alarming after six months of intense fighting, reports Al Jazeera .
The organization says that 96,000 children are starving and on the brink of death in the port city of Al Hudaydah, west Yemen, on the shores of the Red Sea. In addition, it is estimated that approximately 8,000 children suffer severe malnutrition in the future in the port city of Aden next year.
"This conflict is a tragedy, especially for Yemeni children," Julien Harneis complaint, UNICEF representative in Yemen. "Children are being killed there by bombs or bullets and those who survive are faced with the growing threat of disease and malnutrition. This can not be allowed," he laments.
Nearly two million children across Yemen does not have access to enough food or water while fighting in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, led by Saudi Arabia is stepping up its bombing coalition intensifies.
Since last March 26 coalition, which supports the ousted president Mansur Hadi Abd rhabdo launches air strikes against areas controlled by the hutíes Yemen Shiite rebel movement Ansar Hereafter.
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