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Tuesday 10 december 2019
Charity: Over 110 children killed in 2 Yemeni areas in 2019

By SAMY MAGDY six wounded children
Associated Press from two families, some
CAIRO (AP) — Over 110 Ye- of whom had broken legs
meni children were killed and shrapnel wounds
between January and Oc- across their bodies.
tober in the key port city of “I cannot forget the young-
Hodeida and a southwest- est girl, just three years
ern province, an interna- old, with burns all over her
tional charity said Monday. hands” she said. “We need
Save the Children said in a to stop this war on chil-
report that 56 children were dren,” she added.
killed and 170 wounded The conflict in Yemen be-
as a direct result of fight- gan with the 2014 take-
ing in Hodeida, despite a over of the capital, Sanaa,
cease-fire there between by Iranian-backed Houthi
Yemen’s internationally rebels who control much
recognized government of the country’s north. A
and the Houthi rebels that Saudi-led coalition allied
was brokered by the U.N. with the internationally rec-
last December in Sweden. ognized government has
“The Stockholm Agree- been fighting the Houthis
ment brought a glimmer since March 2015.
of hope to civilians in the In the relentless campaign,
area, but the fighting is far In this Sept. 3, 2015, file photo people walk at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shiite mosque Saudi-led airstrikes have
in Sanaa, Yemen.
from over,” said Mariam Associated Press hit schools, hospitals and
Aldogani, Save the Chil- wedding parties and killed
dren’s field manager for as a result of shelling by the in the first ten months of this our care. In 2019, our team thousands of Yemeni ci-
Hodeida. The city serves as warring parties. year, more than double has given medical care vilians. The Houthis have
a main passageway for aid The U.N.-brokered deal, the toll in 2018 when 28 to more than 500 children used drones and missiles to
and a lifeline for Houthi- which also included a pris- children were killed, the who have been caught up attack Saudi Arabia.
controlled areas. oner swap, has prevented charity said. The fighting in this conflict, some with The war has killed over
The charity said it was massive humanitarian suf- also wounded 49 children life-threatening injuries,” Al- 100,000 people and cre-
forced to close some of fering in Yemen but has yet in Taiz.“Every day we re- dogani said. ated the world’s worst hu-
its children’s centers in Ho- to be fully implemented. ceive wounded children She said that in once in- manitarian crisis, leaving
deida for three months this Another 57 children were in Save the Children-sup- stance, Save the Children millions suffering from food
year due to security fears killed in the province of Taiz ported hospitals needing simultaneously treated and medical shortages.q

Vandals damage cars in Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem

Associated Press expansion.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Van- It was unclear what moti-
dals slashed the tires of vated Monday’s incident.
over 160 vehicles and In Hebron, the West Bank’s
sprayed slogans such as largest city, Palestinian
“Arabs=enemies” in a Pal- shops, schools and busi-
estinian neighborhood of nesses were shuttered for
Israeli-annexed east Jeru- the one-day strike. Some
salem, Israeli police said youngsters hurled stones
Monday. Elsewhere, Pal- at Israeli military patrols,
estinian residents of the and soldiers fired tear gas
volatile West Bank city of and rubber bullets to dis-
Hebron staged a general perse the crowds. Israel’s
strike to protest the con- new defense minister, Naf-
struction of a new Jewish tali Bennett, presented his
settlement there. plan for a new settlement
Masked suspects oper- there early this month. Ben-
ated under the cover of nett, a longtime supporter
darkness to vandalize the of the West Bank settle-
cars in east Jerusalem’s ment movement, said his
Shuafat neighborhood plan will double the Jewish
and spray-painted He- A Palestinian demonstrator hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank city of population of Hebron. He-
brew graffiti on a nearby Hebron, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. bron is frequent flashpoint
wall, police spokesman Associated Press of violence. Hundreds of
Micky Rosenfeld said. He demned the “hate crime” “When Jews are stabbed, so-called “price tag” at- hard-line Jewish settlers
said the authorities were and called upon the po- we aren’t silent,” and tacks against Palestinians guarded by thousands of
treating the incident as lice “to find the criminals as “There is no place in the in response to Palestinian soldiers live in the heart
criminal with “nationalis- fast as possible and bring land for enemies.” Hard- militant attacks or per- of the city, which has a
tic motives.” Jerusalem them to justice.” The graf- line nationalist Israelis have ceived efforts by Israeli au- population of over 200,000
Mayor Moshe Lion con- fiti included the phrases been known to execute thorities to limit settlement Palestinians.q