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Drinking water systems under repeated continuous attack in Yemen

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore

SANA’A/NEW YORK, 1 August 2018 - “Attacks against civilian facilities and services are unacceptable, inhumane and in breach of the basic laws of war.

“Ongoing violence and repeated attacks on lifesaving civilian infrastructure in Hodeida are a direct threat to the survival of hundreds of thousands of children and their families.“Yet the past few days have seen an escalation...