At least 47 children were killed or injured in war-torn Yemen in the first two months of 2022 as fighting escalated between government forces and the Houthi rebels, a UN official said on Saturday.
Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthis took control of the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country's north, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia.
The fighting has escalated since the beginning of 2022 as the Saudi-led coalition stepped up its support to government ground forces to fend off a year-long Houthi offensive on the central city of Marib. The clashes have also intensified elsewhere in the Arab world's poorest country. He called on all warring parties and their backers to protect civilians especially children whose "safety, their well-being and protection must be safeguarded at all times."
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