Over 50,000 Children Lost Their Lives in Yemen during 2017

Save the Children Fund estimated that 50,000 children may have died in 2017 of extreme hunger or disease, listing that up to 30 percent of children with untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition die. UNICEF reported last year that a child dies, from preventable diseases, on the average of once every 10 minutes in Yemen. As the Associated Press (AP) reported last May, at least 3 million Yemeni women and children suffered severe acute malnutrition, another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives

Reports from Aid agencies added that, nearly a third of Yemen’s population, 8.4 million of its 29 million people, rely completely on food aid or else they would starve. That number grew by a quarter over the past year and agencies warn that parts of Yemen could soon start to see widespread death from famine. More and more people are reliant on aid that is already failing to reach people

According to head of the UN humanitarian effort in Yemen, Lise Grande, in the last two and half months, things have gotten worse. “8.5 million people that we describe as being pre-famine, when they wake up in the morning, they have no idea if they will eat that day, by the end of this year, another 10 million Yemenis will be in that situation

In the face of a humanitarian situation described as the most catastrophic in the world, the US-Saudi aggression and siege against Yemen is deeply responsible about a situation that looks in the words of the United Nations’ humanitarian chief, like the Apocalyps