International press: Afrin's displaced lost confidence in international community, Yemeni children are starving

On Saturday, International Press touched upon the suffering of the displaced people of Afrin, and the hunger that kills children in Yemen

'Displaced people from Afrin ... Turkish attacks terrorize civilians'

The Israeli Jerusalem Post said: "Turkish air strikes and the ongoing attacks by Turkish-backed extremist groups in northern Syria have left civilians feeling helpless and abandoned by the international community, and there were reports this week of bombing areas near Tal Rifaat in two villages called Ain Digna and Maranaz. Twelve kilometers north of Aleppo. "

There are many displaced people in the area, including Kurdish and Yazidi minorities, who fled Afrin when Turkey invaded northern Syria in January 2018. About 160,000 Kurds and minorities were displaced by Turkey and Turkish-backed groups in Afrin, and many of them fled to areas near Aleppo.

And the Turkish-backed extremists often bomb the displaced to terrorize them, and carry out their aggression against the local population because Turkey signed an agreement with Russia and ordered the extremists it supports not to fight the Syrian regime.

Ankara's agenda in northern Syria is to fight the Kurds only, and it has launched several attacks against the Kurds, claiming that there are "terrorists" among them. There is no evidence that people living in the areas that have been bombed have carried out any attacks against Turkey.

'The United Nations warns: 400,000 children in Yemen are at risk of starvation'

In turn, the British Newspaper" Independent" said: "The United Nations has warned that nearly half a million children under the age of five may die of starvation in Yemen if they do not receive urgent treatment, adding that 50 percent of them face severe malnutrition this year."

In a joint statement, the United Nations agencies concerned with children, food, health and agriculture said that in 2021, 2.3 million children under the age of five will suffer from hunger or the risk of famine this year, which represents an increase of 16 percent from 2020.

Of this number, 400,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, which means that they may die if not treated urgently, an increase of 22 percent over the numbers in 2020.

A catastrophic combination of conflict, the coronavirus pandemic and climate change has devastated war-torn Yemen, where 80 percent of the population of nearly 30 million people now depend on aid to survive.

Peace talks between the Gulf-backed government and the Iranian-backed Houthis in the north have stalled as the conflict enters its seventh year.

United Nations agencies have warned that 2021 will witness the highest level of acute malnutrition recorded in Yemen since the beginning of the conflict, and highlighted war-torn governorates such as al Hudaydah, Aden and Taiz as among the worst affected.

The United Nations also notes that mothers are also affected by the crisis, with about 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women in Yemen expected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year.

Despite the severity of the crisis, the United Nations said that the humanitarian response to Yemen remains "seriously underfunded."

According to the United Nations, Yemen is "one of the most dangerous places in the world to raise children."

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ANHA ​​​​​​​