Yemen 2017: War Killed 200+ Children
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A top United Nations official in Yemen stated that a total of 201 children have been killed in Yemen's war since the beginning of 2017.
"In 2017, 201 children have been killed in Yemen: 152 boys and 49 girls," UNICEF resident representative in Yemen Meritxell Relano said in her twitter account on Monday, Xinhua reported.
Relano's remarks came three days after an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition hit a family`s home in Mahdha area in the Yemeni northern province of Saada, killing six children and three women.
Commenting on Friday's airstrike, Relano condemned the attack but did not accuse any party behind it.
According to UN agencies, more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed during more than two years of war in Yemen that also displaced over 3 million.
In March 2017, UNICEF put the death toll of children from the war at 1,546, and other 2,450 injured. The country has also been hit by a deadly cholera outbreak and is on the edge of famine.
More than 12,000 people have lost their lives since March 2015, when the Saudi kingdom began its offensive against the Arab world's poorest nation.
Riyadh seeks to restore Yemen's former government, its close ally, and crush the country's Ansarullah revolutionary movement.
The Saudi regime has also been enforcing an all-out blockade against Yemen, claiming it works to halt arms transfers to the Ansarullah movement.
The popular fighters have been defending the nation against the assaults, launching retaliatory attacks targeting the kingdom's extreme southwestern regions.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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