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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Ongoing civil war in the state of Yemen For other uses, see Yemeni civil war. Yemeni civil war Part of the Yemeni crisis, the Arab Winter, the war on terror, and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict Political and military control in Yemen in February 2024: Republic of Yemen (recognized ...
Children accounted for a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen's grinding war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government, a child ...
The UN estimates that the war has caused an estimated 130,000 deaths from indirect causes which include lack of food, health services, and infrastructure as of December 2020. [11] In 2018, Save the Children estimated that 85,000 children have died due to starvation in the three years prior.
On 20 April 2016 the UN General Assembly Security Council in a report covering the period January to December 2015 "verified a sixfold increase in the number of children killed and maimed compared with 2014, totalling 1,953 child casualties (785 children killed and 1,168 injured). More than 70 per cent were boys.
An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Hafsa Ahmed is about 2. About a dozen other children in the red-brick hospital in this southern Yemeni city are ...
The U.S. military bombed Yemen earlier this week. Its statement Friday said fighter jets struck “on the western coast and inland Yemen,” a day after the Houthis launched three drones at Israel.
War crimes and human rights violations, committed by all warring parties, have been widespread throughout the Yemeni civil war. [1] This includes the two main groups involved in the ongoing conflict: forces loyal to the current Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (supported by the Saudi-Arabia-led coalition), and Houthis and other forces supporting Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni ...
It is estimated that anywhere between 400 and 500 children are killed every year in Yemen as the result of tribal conflict. [172] The same organization eventually released a report claiming that 700 children were used as soldiers by the Houthis and pro-government militias during the war.