No fewer than 398 children have been
killed in Yemen since conflict broke out this year, and another 605 injured,
according to a UNICEF report released Wednesday.
Fighting in Yemen intensified in
March when the mainly Shiite ethnic Houthi rebels advanced on the former
southern capital Aden, forcing President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi to flee to
Riyadh and prompting a Saudi-led coalition to launch an air campaign against
them, reports dpa.
Gulf-backed fighters on the ground
have forced rebels from key positions in central Yemen in the past week.
Amnesty International said recent
offensives from both sides could amount to war crimes. The Houthis, backed by military
units loyal to Hadi's predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, are facing off against a
range of local and tribal fighters, Sunni Islamists, southern secessionists and
al-Qaeda militants.
The United Nations says that 21
million people - some 80 per cent of the population - are currently in need of
humanitarian assistance in the country, which suffered from severe poverty and
food and water shortages even before the conflict.
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