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This is a war on children, and “Safe Zones” are death traps: UNICEF

Originally published: Informed Comment on December 4, 2023 by Juan Cole (more by Informed Comment) (Posted Dec 06, 2023)

Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.
Over 11,000 Yemeni children have been killed or injured since 2015: UNICEF

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 12, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch) |

2015 is the year when the Saudi-led international coalition intervened in the conflict in Yemen. It has also imposed a blockade crippling land and sea blockade.