Highlights
Earlier this week, 14 educators and four of their children were killed and 20 people injured in an airstrike on a teacher’s office in Amran, just north of Sana’a. UNICEF’s Executive Director and the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict strongly condemned the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the devastating impact it is having on Yemen’s children.
Additional reports of children killed and maimed surfaced this week but they are still being verified. This includes five children (4 boys and 1 girl) killed by airstrikes in Hodeidah Governorate; one girl killed by the ongoing shelling in Hajjah Governorate; 34 children killed and 12 children injured by shelling and airstrikes in Taiz Governorate; and four children killed and one child injured by airstrikes in Amran Governorate.
Over the past week, UNICEF continued to support the first vaccination campaign since the upsurge in conflict for Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and Measles Rubella (MR) in 49 highest risk districts nationwide. A total of 3,931,905 children under 5 were reached with OPV (96 per cent of the target) and 962,172 children between six months and 15 years were reached with MR (83 per cent of the target).