Iran�s foreign minister has stressed the need for an end to Saudi-led attacks against Yemen and a political process to resolve the conflict there, saying the world community has a �moral responsibility� to help bring an end to the tragedy unfolding in the war-torn country and hold the aggressors accountable.

Mohammad Javad Zarif was replying on Monday to an earlier tweet by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, which said Yemen was �in imminent danger of the worst famine� the world has seen in decades and called for �immediate action.�

The UN chief had also said, �I urge all those with influence to act urgently on these issues to stave off catastrophe, and I also request that everyone avoids taking any action that could make the already dire situation even worse.�

In response, the Iranian foreign minister highlighted the global community�s responsibility to help facilitate an end to the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
�Enough is enough! It is a moral responsibility, long overdue, for int�l community to end #Yemen tragedy. And hold invaders�and their masters trading Yemeni lives for $�to account,� Zarif wrote in response to the UN chief�s remarks.
�Only viable path is ceasefire+end to bombardments; urgent humanitarian aid; and political talks,� the chief Iranian diplomat pointed out.
Enough is enough!

It is a moral responsibility, long overdue, for int'l community to end�#Yemen�tragedy. And hold invaders�and their masters trading Yemeni lives for $�to account.

Only viable path is ceasefire+end to bombardments; urgent humanitarian aid; and political talks.

� Javad Zarif (@JZarif)�November 23, 2020
UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children�s lives at high risk�

Meanwhile, the United Nations Children�s Fund (UNICEF) also warned that the lives of millions of Yemeni children are at great risk as a result of the continuing conflict there.

�As Yemen slowly inches towards what the UN Secretary-General has described as potentially �the worst famine in decades,� the risk to children�s lives is higher than ever. The warning signs have been clear for far too long,� UNICEF said in�a statement�on Monday.
It added, �More than 12 million children need humanitarian assistance. Acute child malnutrition rates have reached record levels in some parts of the country, marking a 10 percent increase just this year.�
�Nearly 325,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition and are fighting to survive. More than five million children face a heightened threat of cholera and acute watery diarrhea,� UNICEF said.
�Chronic poverty, decades of underdevelopment, and over five years of unrelenting conflict have exposed children and their families to a deadly combination of violence and disease,� it added.
UNICEF then called on Yemen�s warring parties�to �keep children out of harm�s way and allow unhindered access to communities in need � as is their duty under international humanitarian law.�

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a military onslaught against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of�bringing the government of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah movement.

The US-based�Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization,�estimates that the�war has�claimed�more than 100,000�lives�for over the past five years.

The Ansarullah movement, backed by�armed forces, has been defending Yemen against the Saudi-led alliance, preventing the aggressors from fulfilling the objectives of the atrocious war.

 

Source: Press TV