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Saudi coalition attacks killed children in Yemen: UN Chief Guterres

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said, in a draft report, that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for more than half the children killed and injured in Yemen's civil war last year. The report, obtained yesterday, said the United Nations verified 1,340 casualties and attributed 683, representing 51 per cent, to attacks carried out by the coalition. <br/><br/>It said nearly three-quarters of attacks on schools and hospitals, 38 of 52, were also carried out by the coalition. The draft report on children and armed conflict echoes similar findings from last year when the US-backed coalition was put on a UN blacklist for violating child rights. It was removed by then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after Saudi Arabia and other coalition supporters threatened to stop funding many UN programs.

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