Alwaght- At least 130 children die every day in Yemen from extreme hunger and disease–one child every 18 minutes as a US-backed Saudi aggression on the impoverished state continues, a global aid agency has said.
In a situation report published on its website, Save the Children notes that, a continuing Saudi-imposed blockade on Yemen’s northern ports is likely to increase the death toll further, past the projected 50,000 children expected to die this year. The statistics do not include Yemeni children killed in bombardments by Saudi-led warplanes on the war-torn country.
The report adds that almost 400,000 children will need treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Yemen this year, but aid organizations are struggling to reach them all amid chronic funding shortfalls, the largest cholera outbreak in modern history, and obstructions to supplies of food and aid.
The charity organization says it has five shipping containers full of life-saving food for sick and malnourished children stuck in Aden due to the Saudi-imposed blockade.
Meanwhile, Saudi warplanes raided on Sunday the civilian areas in Al-Masloub directorate in the Yemeni province of Al-Jawf, leaving eight children killed and three women injured.
Since March 2015, Yemen has been under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Over 13,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians including women and children thousands have been killed and thousands more injured in Saudi-led bombardments.
The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of its aggression which is aimed at ousting the popular Ansarullah movement and restoring to power fugitive former president Abdurabbuh Mansour Hadi.
However, Yemeni forces and their local allies including Ansarullah fighters have heroically confronting the Saudi-led aggression by all means.
