Entesaf Organization Publishes Book “A Decade of Aggression and the Crimes Continue” Marking Ten Years of the Aggression on Yemen

On Mar 27, 2025

Wednesday, Ramadan 26, 1446 AH (March 26, 2025)

Entesaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights published a book titled “A Decade of Aggression and the Crimes Continue” marking ten years of the aggression on Yemen, coinciding with National Resilience Day.

According to the book, more than 14,939 children and women have been killed and wounded in Yemen as a result of the US-Saudi-British aggression over the past ten years.

It explained that the number of women and children killed reached 6,655, including 4,158 children and 2,497 women, while the number of wounded reached 8,284, including 5,189 children and 3,095 women.

The book indicated that the number of violations committed by the aggression forces on the West Coast amounted to more than 800 crimes against children and women, including kidnapping and rape. The aggression has also led to an increase in gender-based violence among children, increasing by 63 percent compared to before the aggression. The number of displaced persons has increased over the ten years of the aggression, reaching 6.7 million in 15 governorates as a result of the ongoing aggression on Yemen.

According to statistics included in the book, one in three displaced families is headed by women, and 21 percent of these families are headed by girls under the age of 18.

The book indicated that the total number of civilian victims of disability targeted by the aggression was 14,406, including more than 6,000 children. Meanwhile, persons with disabilities were denied access to 162,304 services during the aggression, including 55,400 health services, including surgeries, medicines, medical supplies, examinations, and physical and speech therapy. The number of students with disabilities who were deprived of education at various levels reached 8,432, both males and females. They were also deprived of more than 28,032 financial services, 15,744 in-kind services, 26,024 rehabilitation services, 6,224 cultural and social services, and 22,448 services provided by the Disabled Persons Fund branches in the governorates.

On the educational front, the report indicated that 2.4 million children are out of school due to displacement, the destruction of educational infrastructure, and economic conditions. The number of destroyed and damaged schools reached 3,768. The book estimates that 196,197 teachers have not received their regular salaries since 2016 due to the aggression and blockade. It notes that the economic war has led to an expansion of child labor, with the number of children forced by economic circumstances into the labor market exceeding 400,000, aged 10 to 14, with males accounting for 55.8 percent and females for 44.2 percent. Additionally, there are approximately 1.6 million children, 34.3 percent of whom are aged 5 to 17.

It confirmed the death of more than 830,000 children under the age of five during the ten years of aggression, with 80 newborns under 28 days old dying every day. He also noted the death of 46,000 women due to complications resulting from the blockade and aggression, and 350,000 miscarriages. He pointed out that the number of fetal deformities has increased to more than 22,000 in areas heavily targeted by the aggression with internationally prohibited weapons. He also noted an annual increase in the number of premature and underweight newborns under the aggression and blockade, increasing by more than 9 percent, 50 percent of whom die due to the repercussions of the blockade and aggression, as well as malnutrition and immunodeficiency.

The book stated that the number of children suffering from heart defects has reached more than 3,000, and the number of children suffering from acute malnutrition has risen to more than 2.6 million children under the age of five, including 630,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. More than 1.8 million women suffer from malnutrition, one million women suffer from anemia, and 36 percent of pregnant mothers visiting health facilities have anemia.

It indicated that cases of pneumonia in children reached 18 percent, while 18 percent of women suffer from malnutrition. Seven thousand three hundred eighty-seven patients with thalassemia and hereditary hemolytic anemia face the risk of death due to the blockade on medicines and the deteriorating economic conditions of their families. 541 of these patients have died due to the blockade. Five thousand kidney failure patients face shortages in the supply of medicines for dialysis sessions due to the blockade, in addition to the medications accompanying each session. There are more than 498 hemodialysis machines in several centers that need spare parts.

The book stated that there are more than 95,850 cases registered with the National Cancer Center, a 50 percent increase, and that more than 3,000 children with leukemia are facing death, 300 of whom need urgent travel for treatment.