Sana'a - Saba:
As the world celebrates International Children's Rights Day on November 20, children in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon are still subjected to the worst US, Zionist, British and Saudi aggression.
The grievances of Yemenis, Palestinians and Lebanese are similar in the crimes and violations committed by the forces of global hegemony and tyranny, although their names, titles and justifications differ, with the passage of more than seven decades since the Palestinian cause, which will remain the central and first cause of the Yemeni and Lebanese people.
The children of Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon are an example of a human tragedy created by the countries of arrogance led by America and Western countries and their tools in the region, practicing unjust and unjust direct killing and targeting as well as using the policy of starvation as a means of war to destroy civilians, including children and women, in full-fledged war crimes in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law and international conventions on the state of war, which prohibit the killing of civilians, deliberately targeting civilian objects and criminalizing the siege.
The crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza and Lebanon, and the US-Saudi Emirati coalition in Yemen, will remain living testimonies for generations to remember throughout history of the atrocity of the massacres and genocidal war.
INTESAF Organization for Women and Children's Rights issued a human rights report entitled “Children between the might of the aggression and the silence of the world” documenting the effects and repercussions of the blockade and aggression on children in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon and psychological support mechanisms, in conjunction with the International Day for the Rights of the Child, which falls on November 20 of each year.
The report addresses the catastrophic and tragic conditions that children in Yemen have been living in for nearly ten years as a result of the aggression and blockade, as well as the catastrophic situation that children in Palestine and Lebanon are living in as a result of the Zionist-US aggression on the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out that the coalition of aggression on Yemen and the Zionist aggression on Gaza and Lebanon have committed the most heinous massacres and six grave violations against children and international laws and conventions, targeting homes, schools, mosques and civilian objects and imposing an absolute siege on civilians, which exacerbated and deteriorated the situation.
The report stated that since the start of the aggression against Yemen on March 26, 2015 until November 19, 2024, the number of children killed reached 4,136 martyrs and 5,110 children injured, while the number of child victims of the Zionist occupation in Gaza since October 7, 2023 AD reached more than 17,492 children, while the number of wounded by the Zionist occupation raids increased to 104,000 and eight wounded, mostly women and children, while the number of missing persons exceeded more than 11,000, including a large number of children who are still under the rubble.
In Lebanon, the number of civilian victims of Zionist targeting has reached 3,544 martyrs and 15,000 and 35 wounded, mostly women and children, since October 8, 2023, as more children are buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings across the country.
The report states that the aggression against Yemen has carried out 2,932 raids with cluster bombs over the past nine years, with the total number of civilian victims of the use of these bombs reaching nearly 9,000 victims, most of whom are women and children.
According to the report, the aggression on Yemen destroyed 572 hospitals, facilities and health facilities, targeted 100 ambulances and their crews, prevented the entry of medical supplies for chronic diseases, and stopped more than 60 percent of the health sector, while four million and 521,727 children and women suffer from acute, general and severe malnutrition, including 313,790 children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
The suffering of children and women was present in the report, which monitored with figures and statistics the number of malnourished children and women, including pregnant and lactating women.
According to the report, 1,777,423 children suffer from general malnutrition, 1,463,633 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and 966,881 pregnant and lactating women struggle with malnutrition in order to survive in light of the humanitarian disaster caused by the aggression.
More than 8.5 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and face the daily threat of food shortages and displacement, the continued reduction of aid, the suspension of programs and interventions to prevent malnutrition, and nearly 80 percent of the population - more than 24 million people - need some form of humanitarian assistance.
According to the statistics in the report, more than 80 newborns die every day due to the repercussions of the use of internationally prohibited weapons, and the actual need for the health sector is estimated at about 2,000 incubators, while it has only 600 incubators, and as a result, 50 percent of premature babies die, and the incidence of cancer has increased to 35,000 people, including more than 1,000 children.
He pointed out that the number of people with disabilities increased from three million before the aggression on Yemen to 4.5 million people currently, while more than 6,000 civilians have been disabled as a result of armed hostilities since the start of the aggression, including more than 5,559 children, and 16,000 cases of women and children need motor rehabilitation.
The report touched on the situation of education, as the aggression coalition targeted educational facilities, which led to the destruction and damage of about 28,000 educational and educational facilities, more than 45 public and private universities and colleges, and 74 technical and technical institutes.
As a result, 3,676 schools were damaged, of which 419 were completely destroyed and 1,506 partially damaged, 756 schools were closed, 995 schools were used to shelter displaced people, and more than one million students dropped out of education, while 8.1 million children need emergency educational assistance across the country, and 2.4 million children are out of school out of 10 million and 600,000 school-age children.
The report notes that 1.6 million working children in Yemen are deprived of their most basic rights, and the number of working children reached 7.7 million, or about 34.3 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17, noting that the aggression and blockade are the reason for the increase in the rate of child labor in Yemen.
The number of displaced people rose to five million, 159,560 in 15 Yemeni governorates under the control of the Salvation Government, including one million, 168,664 individuals who do not receive aid until today.
The report said that nine out of ten children in displacement camps in Yemen do not have sufficient opportunities to obtain their most basic needs such as education, food and drinking water, and about 1.71 million displaced children in the country are still deprived of basic services and half a million of them do not have access to formal education.
With regard to the Gaza Strip in Palestine, the Zionist occupation completely destroyed 815 mosques, 151 mosques were partially destroyed, in addition to targeting three churches, and 477 schools, 276 health institutions, hospitals and health centers were out of service.
Regarding Lebanon, the Zionist occupation targeted 88 medical and ambulatory centers, 40 hospitals, 244 vehicles belonging to the health sector, and carried out attacks on 65 hospitals and 218 ambulatory associations
According to the report, the children of Gaza are living in deteriorating conditions due to the lack of fuel, food, water and electricity, and the Zionist occupation prevents the entry of aid through the Rafah crossing, and if it is allowed, only a small part of it enters, which is not enough to cover the needs of the population of the Gaza Strip.
He reported that the number of displaced people in Gaza reached two million people, including a large number of children, and in Lebanon, about 1.4 million people were forced to leave the areas targeted by the Zionist occupation bombing.
The report outlines the international laws and treaties that called for the protection of children during wars and conflicts and the extent of their application by the United Nations and its organizations during the aggression on Yemen and Gaza, stressing that these organizations were complicit with all that is happening against the Yemeni, Palestinian and Lebanese people and stood in a shameful position in front of all the crimes committed in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon.
He reviewed the psychological and social effects of the aggression on children and ways of psychological support for them in crises, calling for an end to the aggression and blockade on Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon and the formation of an impartial international commission of inquiry to investigate all crimes and massacres committed there.
The launch of the report coincides with the International Day for the Rights of the Child, which falls on November 20, and reminds the world of the massacres committed by America, Israel, Western countries and their tools in the region in Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon.
She pointed out that the report documented the crimes of aggression against children in Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon, in addition to the human suffering created by the coalition of aggression on Yemen as a result of its criminal practices, as well as the human tragedy of the children of Lebanon and Palestine, specifically in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Taifi called on the international community, the United Nations and international and humanitarian bodies and organizations to assume responsibility for stopping the crimes of the US-Zionist aggression on Gaza and Lebanon, lifting the siege and allowing the entry of food, medicine and fuel to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni, Palestinian and Lebanese people.
Despite the tragedy and human suffering for nearly ten years in Yemen, Yemenis were able to overcome the challenges of the aggression and siege, and rose from the rubble and were able to achieve successes on various tracks, and made unforeseen heroics, while the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance is moving forward today to confront the Zionist enemy and fill its nose and abuse it in the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories for 410 days.
As the world celebrates International Children's Rights Day on November 20, children in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon are still subjected to the worst US, Zionist, British and Saudi aggression.
The grievances of Yemenis, Palestinians and Lebanese are similar in the crimes and violations committed by the forces of global hegemony and tyranny, although their names, titles and justifications differ, with the passage of more than seven decades since the Palestinian cause, which will remain the central and first cause of the Yemeni and Lebanese people.
The children of Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon are an example of a human tragedy created by the countries of arrogance led by America and Western countries and their tools in the region, practicing unjust and unjust direct killing and targeting as well as using the policy of starvation as a means of war to destroy civilians, including children and women, in full-fledged war crimes in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law and international conventions on the state of war, which prohibit the killing of civilians, deliberately targeting civilian objects and criminalizing the siege.
The crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza and Lebanon, and the US-Saudi Emirati coalition in Yemen, will remain living testimonies for generations to remember throughout history of the atrocity of the massacres and genocidal war.
INTESAF Organization for Women and Children's Rights issued a human rights report entitled “Children between the might of the aggression and the silence of the world” documenting the effects and repercussions of the blockade and aggression on children in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon and psychological support mechanisms, in conjunction with the International Day for the Rights of the Child, which falls on November 20 of each year.
The report addresses the catastrophic and tragic conditions that children in Yemen have been living in for nearly ten years as a result of the aggression and blockade, as well as the catastrophic situation that children in Palestine and Lebanon are living in as a result of the Zionist-US aggression on the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out that the coalition of aggression on Yemen and the Zionist aggression on Gaza and Lebanon have committed the most heinous massacres and six grave violations against children and international laws and conventions, targeting homes, schools, mosques and civilian objects and imposing an absolute siege on civilians, which exacerbated and deteriorated the situation.
The report stated that since the start of the aggression against Yemen on March 26, 2015 until November 19, 2024, the number of children killed reached 4,136 martyrs and 5,110 children injured, while the number of child victims of the Zionist occupation in Gaza since October 7, 2023 AD reached more than 17,492 children, while the number of wounded by the Zionist occupation raids increased to 104,000 and eight wounded, mostly women and children, while the number of missing persons exceeded more than 11,000, including a large number of children who are still under the rubble.
In Lebanon, the number of civilian victims of Zionist targeting has reached 3,544 martyrs and 15,000 and 35 wounded, mostly women and children, since October 8, 2023, as more children are buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings across the country.
The report states that the aggression against Yemen has carried out 2,932 raids with cluster bombs over the past nine years, with the total number of civilian victims of the use of these bombs reaching nearly 9,000 victims, most of whom are women and children.
According to the report, the aggression on Yemen destroyed 572 hospitals, facilities and health facilities, targeted 100 ambulances and their crews, prevented the entry of medical supplies for chronic diseases, and stopped more than 60 percent of the health sector, while four million and 521,727 children and women suffer from acute, general and severe malnutrition, including 313,790 children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
The suffering of children and women was present in the report, which monitored with figures and statistics the number of malnourished children and women, including pregnant and lactating women.
According to the report, 1,777,423 children suffer from general malnutrition, 1,463,633 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and 966,881 pregnant and lactating women struggle with malnutrition in order to survive in light of the humanitarian disaster caused by the aggression.
More than 8.5 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and face the daily threat of food shortages and displacement, the continued reduction of aid, the suspension of programs and interventions to prevent malnutrition, and nearly 80 percent of the population - more than 24 million people - need some form of humanitarian assistance.
According to the statistics in the report, more than 80 newborns die every day due to the repercussions of the use of internationally prohibited weapons, and the actual need for the health sector is estimated at about 2,000 incubators, while it has only 600 incubators, and as a result, 50 percent of premature babies die, and the incidence of cancer has increased to 35,000 people, including more than 1,000 children.
He pointed out that the number of people with disabilities increased from three million before the aggression on Yemen to 4.5 million people currently, while more than 6,000 civilians have been disabled as a result of armed hostilities since the start of the aggression, including more than 5,559 children, and 16,000 cases of women and children need motor rehabilitation.
The report touched on the situation of education, as the aggression coalition targeted educational facilities, which led to the destruction and damage of about 28,000 educational and educational facilities, more than 45 public and private universities and colleges, and 74 technical and technical institutes.
As a result, 3,676 schools were damaged, of which 419 were completely destroyed and 1,506 partially damaged, 756 schools were closed, 995 schools were used to shelter displaced people, and more than one million students dropped out of education, while 8.1 million children need emergency educational assistance across the country, and 2.4 million children are out of school out of 10 million and 600,000 school-age children.
The report notes that 1.6 million working children in Yemen are deprived of their most basic rights, and the number of working children reached 7.7 million, or about 34.3 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17, noting that the aggression and blockade are the reason for the increase in the rate of child labor in Yemen.
The number of displaced people rose to five million, 159,560 in 15 Yemeni governorates under the control of the Salvation Government, including one million, 168,664 individuals who do not receive aid until today.
The report said that nine out of ten children in displacement camps in Yemen do not have sufficient opportunities to obtain their most basic needs such as education, food and drinking water, and about 1.71 million displaced children in the country are still deprived of basic services and half a million of them do not have access to formal education.
With regard to the Gaza Strip in Palestine, the Zionist occupation completely destroyed 815 mosques, 151 mosques were partially destroyed, in addition to targeting three churches, and 477 schools, 276 health institutions, hospitals and health centers were out of service.
Regarding Lebanon, the Zionist occupation targeted 88 medical and ambulatory centers, 40 hospitals, 244 vehicles belonging to the health sector, and carried out attacks on 65 hospitals and 218 ambulatory associations
According to the report, the children of Gaza are living in deteriorating conditions due to the lack of fuel, food, water and electricity, and the Zionist occupation prevents the entry of aid through the Rafah crossing, and if it is allowed, only a small part of it enters, which is not enough to cover the needs of the population of the Gaza Strip.
He reported that the number of displaced people in Gaza reached two million people, including a large number of children, and in Lebanon, about 1.4 million people were forced to leave the areas targeted by the Zionist occupation bombing.
The report outlines the international laws and treaties that called for the protection of children during wars and conflicts and the extent of their application by the United Nations and its organizations during the aggression on Yemen and Gaza, stressing that these organizations were complicit with all that is happening against the Yemeni, Palestinian and Lebanese people and stood in a shameful position in front of all the crimes committed in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon.
He reviewed the psychological and social effects of the aggression on children and ways of psychological support for them in crises, calling for an end to the aggression and blockade on Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon and the formation of an impartial international commission of inquiry to investigate all crimes and massacres committed there.
The launch of the report coincides with the International Day for the Rights of the Child, which falls on November 20, and reminds the world of the massacres committed by America, Israel, Western countries and their tools in the region in Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon.
She pointed out that the report documented the crimes of aggression against children in Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon, in addition to the human suffering created by the coalition of aggression on Yemen as a result of its criminal practices, as well as the human tragedy of the children of Lebanon and Palestine, specifically in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Taifi called on the international community, the United Nations and international and humanitarian bodies and organizations to assume responsibility for stopping the crimes of the US-Zionist aggression on Gaza and Lebanon, lifting the siege and allowing the entry of food, medicine and fuel to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni, Palestinian and Lebanese people.
Despite the tragedy and human suffering for nearly ten years in Yemen, Yemenis were able to overcome the challenges of the aggression and siege, and rose from the rubble and were able to achieve successes on various tracks, and made unforeseen heroics, while the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance is moving forward today to confront the Zionist enemy and fill its nose and abuse it in the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories for 410 days.