8 Million Yemeni Children Lack Access to Drinking Water: UN
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Some 8.6 million Yemeni children currently lack access to potable water, the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) reported.
Speaking via Twitter, UNICEF warned that a chronic lack of access to water and health services was putting Yemeni children at risk of cholera, an infectious — and often fatal — bacterial disease, Middle East Monitor reported on Thursday.
According to UN figures, some 85,000 Yemeni children less than five years old have died of malnutrition since the conflict in Yemen began in 2015.
As the Saudi war on Yemen enters its fourth year, about 14 million people in Yemen — roughly half of the country’s total population — are at risk of starvation, the UN says.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.