A girl carries a bucket filled with water from a well that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The U.N. health agency said Tuesday that plans to ship cholera vaccine to Yemen are likely to be shelved over security, access and logistical challenges in the war-torn country. Yemen's suspected cholera caseload has surged past 313,000, causing over 1,700 deaths in the world's largest outbreak. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Children in Yemen Bear the Brunt of Saudi-Led War

On May 2, 2018

YemenExtra

Three years of Saudi-led war in Yemen have created a humanitarian crisis, including “the world’s largest food security emergency,” according to the United Nations.

Children are bearing the brunt of Saudi-led aggression in Yemen, the U.N. warned, that 80% of them in desperate need of aids and 2 million suffering from acute malnutrition.

“We were shocked about the numbers coming out of Yemen on famine and starvation, especially of children under the age of 5,” said Giovanna Reda, a member of the Caritas network.

“We are calling for humanitarian organizations and a diplomatic solution to the Saudi-war in Yemen,” she said of all parties involved. “People should not be allowed to die because they no longer have food.”

“Even after the war ends, the effects of malnutrition, such as stunted growth and delayed cognitive development, may linger,” it said. “In the worst cases, it is fatal.”

The number of suspected cases of cholera in Yemen increased to 1 million, according to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Thursday, warning that the conflict in the poor country deprives 80 percent of Yemeni people from health care.

This comes within the continuation of the aggression in its suffocating siege on all air, land and sea ports and prevent the entry of medical and humanitarian aid to support the health sector, which was exhausted because the siege and the aggression.

Now, more than eight million Yemenis are on the verge of starvation, making the country the scene of what the UN calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”.

Aid officials estimate that about 80 percent of Yemeni people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and medical care. The country’s infrastructure has been destroyed and its health services crippled, due to bombing.

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