Yemen🇾🇪 war: UN 'to list Saudi coalition for killing children'

A Saudi-led multinational coalition fighting in Yemen has been included on a draft United Nations list of parties that kill and maim children in war.

More than 8,530 people, 60% of them civilians, have been killed and 48,800 injured in air strikes and fighting on the ground since March 2015, according to the UN.

The conflict has also left 20.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, created the world's largest food security emergency, and led to a cholera outbreak that is believed to have affected 775,000 people and caused 2,130 deaths.

"In Yemen, the coalition's actions objectively led to the listing for the killing and maiming of children, with 683 child casualties attributed to this party, and, as a result of being responsible for 38 verified incidents, for attacks on schools and hospitals during 2016," a draft of the latest report says.

Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the UN, Abdallah al-Mouallimi, told Reuters news agency that he would not comment until the report was officially approved by Secretary General António Guterres later this month.

UCJ, UNILORIN.