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Basic Laws Of War’ Broken In Ongoing Attacks On Yemen's Water Facilities, Civilian Infrastructure: UNICEF
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 02, 2018 | 12:21 AM
Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Yemen's port city of Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in the war-ravaged country, according to the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday Attacks against civilian facilities and services are unacceptable, inhumane and in breach of the basic laws of war, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.
UNITED NATIONS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Aug, 2018 ) :Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Yemen's port city of Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in the war-ravaged country, according to the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday Attacks against civilian facilities and services are unacceptable, inhumane and in breach of the basic laws of war, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.
Yet the past few days have seen an escalation in the targeting of systems and facilities that are essential to sustaining the lives of children and families, she added.
It was reported at the weekend that a UNICEF-supported warehouse containing humanitarian provisions, including hygiene and water-related supplies, was hit by two airstrikes.
On Saturday, a UNICEF-supported sanitation centre in the Zabid District came under attack, damaging the facility's fuel tank. A day earlier, the al-Mina District water station �was hit, which is the main source of water for the key port city�.
Overall, 22 million people need some kind of assistance in Yemen after years of grinding conflict between government and Saudi-led coalition forces, who've been battling Houthi rebels for control of the country, according to a UNICEF press release.
Hudaydah is the main port for the shattered import-dependent economy, as more than 70 per cent of all humanitarian supplies, commercial goods and food brought into the country, passes through the docks there.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, on Sunday described Hudaydah as just “one airstrike away from an unstoppable epidemic due to the looming risk of a fresh outbreak of deadly water-borne cholera.
The UNICEF chief said on Wednesday that the country was already facing a severe shortage of drinking water, which is directly linked to outbreaks of cholera and acute watery diarrhea, underscoring that attacks on water infrastructure jeopardize efforts to prevent another outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea in Yemen.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that Hudaydah had registered the highest incidences of suspected cholera cases of any city; around 14 per cent of those reported nationwide since the start of a crippling outbreak, in April 2017.
Ms. Fore again called on everyone involved in fighting to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. The war in Yemen has no winners. It is robbing Yemeni children of their futures, she concluded.
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