Al-Thawra Net
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday that as many as 66,000 Yemeni children under the age of five die every year from preventable diseases.
UNICEF resident representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano, said on Twitter that half of these children die during childbirth or in the first month of life, while others die from preventable diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition.
Children continue to be killed in #Taiz, in #Hodeida, in #Marib. In Saada the authorities buried on Monday 37 children, and here are still children disappeared and body parts in the morgue. This war needs to END
— Meritxell Relano (@RelanoMeritxell) August 15, 2018
She added that children in Yemen continue to be killed in several provinces, stressing on the need to end the war.
According to UN officials, more than 16,000 people have been killed in the war, while more than 11 percent of the country’s population has been displaced.
