Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Country Director in Yemen, said:
“The recent numbers by the UN are terrifying, but sadly they are not a surprise. 13 million sounds like an unfathomable statistic but our staff on the ground see the malnourished children behind those statistics coming in every single day.
“We shouldn’t wait until this becomes a full blown famine. Yemen’s children are already starving to death. Insecurity, inaccessibility and the sheer scale of this crisis means organisations are currently not able to reach all children at risk of starvation. Every day, more than one hundred infants are dying from hunger.
“This crisis is not an act of nature, it’s entirely man-made. The warring parties involved in this brutal war must lay down their arms and get back to the negotiating table, and countries must stop fuelling the conflict with weapons. For more than three years this horror has been a stain on our collective conscience. We must not let this war continue another day.”
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