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The Yemen bellwether
The war in Yemen continues to take a terrible toll as UN-mediated peace talks remain stalled, and a fragile cessation of hostilities, barely a week old, is already collapsing.
Doctors Without Borders reported Aug. 13 that at least 10 children were killed and more than 20 injured in an airstrike on a school, which the Houthi-led Yemeni faction in the civil war, which is backed by Iran, blamed on the Saudi-led coalition.
Four days earlier, Julien Harneis, the UNICEF representative in Yemen, had said, “Children are paying the heaviest price of the conflict in Yemen.” UNICEF has verified that more than 1,100 children have been killed and another 1,600 injured since March 2015, although “the actual numbers are likely to be much higher,” according to Harneis.
