Yemen’s Children Paid the Price of Delaying the Inclusion of Saudi Arabia on the Blacklist: Health Spokesman
YemenExtra
M.A.
The Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population confirmed that a year of delay in including Saudi Arabia on the blacklist of child killers has been paid for by thousands of children in Yemen.
“Did the United Nations know that during the preparation and discussion of the draft of the inclusion of the Saudi-led coalition in the blacklist again during the last two weeks, dozens of children were killed by the air raids of the Saudi-UAE aggression supported by America and Britain in Saada, Hajja, Taiz and others,” he said.
“Is it time for the world to say to Saudi Arabia and its allies that its enough!…and not just include it in the list of shame and move it to “Class B” as if it had taken measures to stop the killing of Yemeni children.” he added.
“Yemen has suffered the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster in the year when Saudi Arabia and its alliance were removed from the blacklist due to Saudi pressure and the financial support for the United Nations,” the official stressed.
He explained that the United Nations’s re-inclusion of Saudi Arabia and its coalition in the blacklist occurred under the embarrassment of the daily crimes committed. He went on and said, “No one that has an ounce of humanity can still tolerate the silence toward the crimes of Saudi Arabia.”
“The conscience of humanity must look at the first listing and then the elimination of Saudi Arabia from the blacklist, and then look at the second listing, while Yemen was classified as a country going through the greatest humanitarian disaster on earth during that time and until now, according to the statement of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
Moreover, Dr. Al-Kahlani pointed to the unprecedented cholera epidemic since World War II, according to the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
He also noted that the delay of including the coalition on the blacklist exacerbated the malnutrition of Yemen’s children and led to the inability and deterioration of health programs, resulting to the death of a child every 10 minutes in Yemen for preventable reasons, according to statements by the Executive Director of UNICEF.
According to experts from the most prestigious universities in the world, the health situation in Yemen and its basic indicators have fallen back 10 years in time.
“What we have been improving regarding the health of children under one year and five years and in the field of maternal health is fading before our eyes,” he concluded.