537,000 Yemeni Children Face 'Severe Malnutrition' amid Saudi Aggression

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Alwaght- Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has caused “alarming malnutrition levels” among children in the impoverished Arab country.
According to the latest report by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) the dire malnutrition among Yemeni children is because of the limited availability and lack of access to food due to blocked or damaged delivery routes and restrictions on food and fuel imports caused by the Saudi-led aggression against the country.
“To address increasing malnutrition levels, aid agencies have scaled up assistance and treated 97,000 children for severe acute malnutrition in the past six months, while 65,000 children have been treated for moderate acute malnutrition,” said Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, briefing press at UN Headquarters.
Despite the challenging circumstances to delivery aid, “about 3.8 million children have received food supplements, and 933,000 pregnant and lactating women benefited from supplementary feeding,” according to UNICEF.
But UNICEF estimates that 537,000 children, or one out of eight children under age five, are now at risk of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen – a threefold increase from 160,000 in March when Saudi-led forces started a brutal war against the country.
UNICEF also noted that “almost 1.3 million children under five are moderately malnourished compared with 690,000 children prior to the crisis.”
Early October, UNICEF said over 500 Yemeni children have been killed and nearly two million people are at risk of malnutrition, some six months into the Saudi regime’s military campaign against the impoverished Arab nation.
Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that 505 children have been killed and 702 others wounded since late March, when Saudi Arabia unleashed deadly air raids on Yemen.
Yemen is the worst country for civilian deaths and injuries from explosive weapon use in the first seven months of 2015, according to a recent UN humanitarian report produced by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen to impose fugitive president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed over 6,300 Yemenis, mostly innocent civilians including hundreds of women and children.

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