Since the start of the war on Yemen, coalition factions on the West Coast have perpetrated 712 rape crimes, according to information released on Saturday by the “Entesaf Women and Child Rights Organization.”
Sana’a – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
According to a report by the organization, the number of abduction crimes reached 430, including 65 cases involving women and 150 cases involving children. While in the Aden governorate, 452 occurrences of rape were reported.
Additionally, it noted that since the start of the coalition war in March 2015 until the end of May 2023, there have been more than 13,641 deaths and injuries of women and children.
According to the report, “the number of victims of the remnants of the coalition has increased to 8,122 civilians, including 182 children, who fell between killed and wounded since the beginning of the year until the end of May 2023.”
Yemen has the highest rates of infant and child mortality in the Middle East, with 60 infants and children dying for every 1,000 live births and 52,000 child deaths annually, which means a child dies every ten minutes, according to the human rights organization.
Additionally, it stated that “the siege has contributed to an increase in malnutrition rates, which have risen in the past two years from 3.6 million people to six million, an increase of 66 percent.”
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