Over 1,500 Children Dead in 2 Years of Saudi War on Yemen: UN
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The ongoing Saudi aggression on Yemen has killed nearly 7,700 people, including at least 1,564 children, since Riyadh started attacks on the impoverished Arab country two years ago, UN agencies said.
The UN children's agency UNICEF said on Monday that by March 10, at least 1,546 children were killed and 2,450 others maimed in Yemen.
Of those killed, 1,022 were boys and 478 were girls while 46 were of "unknown sex", UNICEF said in a statement, AFP reported.
During that same period 1,801 boys and 649 girls were wounded while 1,572 boys were recruited to serve as child soldiers, said UNICEF.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
