Over 101 children killed, wounded during Yemen UN-brokered armistice

SANAA, Aug. 20 (YPA) – Over 101 children have been killed and wounded since the beginning of the UN-military sponsored truce, as a result of remnants of the Saudi-led coalition weapons used in the war on Yemen.

“National Mine Action Program” said on Twitter that the children were targeted by cluster bombs in the last 4 months of the humanitarian truce in Yemen.

The Program pointed out that the damage of cluster bombs also led to the destruction of hectares, farms and homes, and affected children, women and all groups of Yemeni society, which still live in constant anxiety on a daily basis.

On Twitter, Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action in Sanaa, Ali Sefra, said, on the occasion of the International Day for Humanitarian Action, that the war coalition on Yemen has been still preventing the entry of detectors to disinfect cluster bombs, mines and remnants of war, even though they are humanitarian equipment to save the lives of children and women in Yemen according to Article VI of the Ottawa Convention, paragraph 2, and no country has the right to impose restrictions or obstruct it.

On Wednesday Brigadier General Sefra revealed in a press statement also a letter to the United Nations to stop supporting the Mine Action Center at the beginning of next September, arguing that the coalition did not allow the purchase of mine detectors and remnants of war.

He stressed that stopping the support would continue to threaten the lives of thousands of citizens, pointing out that the center would work with the available capabilities, without waiting for any support by the United Nations or others as a humanitarian and national duty.

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