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28 November 2019From the beginning of the conflict in Yemen in over 1 in 3 cases the use of explosive weapons killed a woman or a child. "Collateral" victims of air raids or bombing by land that hit populated areas, refugee camps, schools and hospitals.

Tragically their number is growing, with over 3 civilians killed per day in 2019 and a 25% increase in the last 3 months: more than 1,100 since the beginning of the year, 12,000 since the beginning of the conflict. Suffice it to say that since 2015, 67% of civilian casualties have been caused by air attacks by the Saudi Coalition, which have broken 8,000 innocent lives. Bombings involving the use of weapons produced mostly in Great Britain, USA, France, Iran and Italy.

The new Oxfam report denounces the horror of a conflict that - fueled by world arms exports - has already caused 100 thousand victims (20 thousand only in 2019), between civilians and combatants, erasing every possible future for those who survived. 11 million children today have nothing to eat or drink, millions of mothers and girls are exposed to early marriages, harassment, trafficking, prostitution, in the constant nightmare that their children, perhaps playing or looking for something to sell in exchange for food, they can blow up one of the scattered mines even in inhabited areas or be killed in clashes.