Child injured in shell blast in Jawf

JAWF, July. 22 (YPA) – A child was killed on Saturday when a shell, which was left by the Saudi-led coalition forces earlier, blasted in al-Ghail district of Jaw province, a security source said.

On Friday, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC) announced in a statement that six civilians, including two children, were killed and four others injured as a result of the explosion of coalition remnants in the provinces of Marib and Amran.

The statement revealed that 150 victims have been killed or injured in a statistic documented by the center during the first half of the current year 2023.

About 9,500 civilians have been killed and wounded by cluster bombs and remnants of war left by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, since the war on Yemen began in 2015.

The center held the United Nations the humanitarian and moral responsibility for the increasing number of victims, considering that stopping humanitarian activities and reducing support for mine-related activities and actions to 90% since the beginning of this year, a violation of the principles of impartiality as stipulated in the Geneva Convention, the protocol, humanitarian laws and the protection of civilians.