Yemeni Children in 5 years, Pain, Memories of Suffering under US-Saudi Aggression

For the fifth year in a row, on the 20th November, the world celebrates World Children’s Day, while children in Yemen are subjected to direct targeting and genocide. Ninety-five years since the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child was voted may seem long, however, they are too low to be measured by five years of war, aggression, blood, pain, hunger and murder. 

Childhood in the last 5 years:

The war has transformed the lives of Yemen’s children into hell. After nearly five years of devastating war, childhood has become prey to complex crises between direct killing and starvation with suspending education, and not to forget mentioning old epidemics that have returned to kill the thousands.

In addition to the others in society, children have been paying the heaviest price of hostilities since 26 March 2015, as the danger cycle is widening day by day, and those who survive are deprived of their basic rights.

Significantly, the number of children in need of humanitarian assistance jumped from hundreds of thousands before the aggression to more than 12.3 million children, according to the latest statistics issued by the United Nations in mid-November.
 
Between the Geneva Declaration of February 23, 1923, which gives children the right to life, and the Washington Declaration of March 26, 2015, which gave the coalition countries the right to target childhood and commit the most heinous crimes, all laws, principles and human values   disappear.

Aggression Alliance assassinates childhood:

Five years have passed, and childhood in Yemen suffers the scourge of aggression that has been waged by the Saudi-led coalition countries against Yemen. For five years, Yemeni children have suffered. They were killed, destroyed and displaced and subjected to hunger, disease and deprivation of their most basic rights, the right to life.

In a new statistic of what was left behind the aggression that targets Yemen and Yemenis, the Ministry of Public Health and Population said that the aggression and continued siege have assassinated Yemeni children by depriving them health and life rights.
 
 
The Minister of Health, Dr. Taha al-Mutawakkil announced the death of 100,000 children every year due to aggression, diseases and epidemics, including malnutrition and the lack of medicines to save because of the siege, noting that the crimes of the coalition affected women and children since the first raid and continues to this day.

 
He pointed out that the crimes of the coalition were not limited to direct targeting of health facilities, including infants, but extended to the indirect targeting by preventing the entry of medicines and medical supplies for childhood diseases, killing children by a number of diseases, malnutrition, dengue fever and others.
 

 Childhood suffering in Yemen:
 
As the world celebrates World Children’s Day, the Ministry of Health confirmed that Yemen’s children are experiencing the greatest tragedy due to the ongoing aggression and siege.

The ministry spokesperson Dr. Yousef Al-Hadhri announced that there are 7,200 children were killed and injured and more than 800 are disabled as a result of the direct shelling of the aerial coalition.

The ministry said that the number of cholera cases are about two million and two hundred thousand patients, of which about 3,750 have died, 32 percent of them are children. There are 34,520 cases of measles, 273 of them have died, and children have presented 65% of the cases.

He pointed out that the number of people infected with diphtheria reached 4,500 cases, 253 of them have died, children under five years old represented about 16 %. He added that 2.9 million children under five years old are malnourished out of 5.4 million malnourished children, which are 55 percent, 400 thousand of them have severe acute malnutrition.

 
The ministry said that 86 percent of children under the age of five suffer from anemia. 46 percent of children are stunted, and 80,000 children have psychiatric disorders due to aircraft and rocket explosions’ sounds. 

 
Six newborns die every two hours due to the deterioration of health care services. 65 children under five years old out of a thousand children die due to diseases, it said. Pointing out that 320 thousand patients were unable to receive treatment abroad because of the closure of Sana’a airport, 42 thousand patients of them have died, 30 percent of these are children.