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Reuters: UN Children and Armed Conflict Report Condemns Govts Responsible for Child Deaths

Reuters

"A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 children during 2018, accounting for nearly half the total child casualties..." 

"The U.N. report said the Houthis killed and injured 398 children and Yemeni government forces were responsible for 58 child casualties."

Haeretz
"..59 Palestinian children had been killed - 56 by Israeli forces - and another 2,756 injured, while six Israeli children were injured. The report found Israeli forces injured some 2,674 children "in the context of demonstrations, clashes and search and arrest operations."

""In Afghanistan, the number of child casualties remained the highest such number in the present report (3,062) and children accounted for 28 per cent of all civilian casualties. In the Syrian Arab Republic, air strikes, barrel bombs and cluster munitions resulted in 1,854 child casualties," the report said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/year-saudi-led-forces-listed-yemen-child-killings-190727061648880.html

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/israel-saudi-led-forces-among-states-rapped-for-killing-children-by-un-report-1.7578342

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