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Nearly 1,200 children killed or injured in Yemen despite truce: NGO

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 603 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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Nearly 1,200 children killed or injured in Yemen despite truce: NGO Save the Children says nearly one in two child casualties are due to landmines and explosive remnants of war.

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What happened

Nearly 1,200 children killed or injured in Yemen despite truce: NGO Save the Children says nearly one in two child casualties are due to landmines and explosive remnants of war.

Why it matters

Shelling, gunfire, landmines and other explosive remnants of war have killed or injured nearly 1,200 children in Yemen, Save the Children has found, despite a United Nations-led ceasefire four years ago largely reducing hostilities.

Common ground

Since the truce brokered on April 2, 2022, at least 339 children have been killed and 843 injured, some in life-altering ways, the United Kingdom-based humanitarian organisation said in an analysis of data from the Civilian Impact Monitoring Project (CIMP)…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Since the truce brokered on April 2, 2022, at least 339 children have been killed and 843 injured”
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Wikipedia entries about Frontline, Qatar, and the Holocaust are unrelated to Yemen's truce and child casualties. No evidence supports the claim about April 2, 2022 truce statistics.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Frontline is an investigative journalism television program from PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), producing in-depth documentaries on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew…
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Claim 2: “Save the Children says nearly one in two child casualties are due to landmines and explosive remnants of war”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about Save the Children's statistics on landmines causing half of child casualties.
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Claim 3: “There are fears that the Iran-aligned group could attack shipping in the Red Sea, as it has done before, further disrupting global trade”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about Qatar's role in Yemen's conflict.
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Claim 4: “The percentage of children killed or injured due to landmines or unexploded ordnance has been much higher than in the four years prior”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about landmine statistics in Yemen's civil war.
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Claim 5: “Shelling, gunfire, landmines and other explosive remnants of war have killed or injured nearly 1,200 children in Yemen, Save the Children has found, despite a United Nations-led ceasefire four years ago largely reducing hostilities”
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Wikipedia entries about Yemen's blockade and famine do not address child casualties from landmines or UN ceasefire specifics. No direct evidence supports the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The blockade of Yemen refers to a sea, land and air blockade on Yemen which started with the positioning of Saudi Arabian warships in Yemeni waters in 2015 with the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Y…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Yemen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2016, a food insecurity crisis has been ongoing in Yemen which began during the Yemeni civil war. The UN estimates that the war has caused an estimated 130,000 deaths from indirect causes which …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016–present)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yemeni civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية, romanized: al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014–present…
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Claim 6: “Yemen’s Houthis have launched missile attacks on Israel in coordination with Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about Houthi forces or military actions in Yemen.
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Claim 7: “Data collected by CIMP, a monitoring mechanism under the UN Protection Cluster, suggested that children were more than three times more likely than adults to be killed or injured by explosive remnants”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about landmine-related child casualties.
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Claim 8: “Nearly 1,200 children killed or injured in Yemen despite truce: NGO”
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Wikipedia entries provide general context about Yemen's civil war and blockade but do not mention child casualties, truce specifics, or the 1,200 figure. No direct evidence corroborates the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, staged a military intervention in Yemen at the request of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Including the Socotra Archipelago, mainland Yemen is located in southern Arabia; bordering Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the no…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yemeni civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية, romanized: al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014–present…
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Claim 9: “Blast injuries have at times led to permanent disabilities in children, including injuries to the spine, amputation of limbs and loss of sight and hearing”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about humanitarian aid or specific casualty figures.
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Claim 10: “The organisation also found that 511 – nearly one in two – child casualties were due to landmines and explosive remnants of war”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web searches to support the claim about Save the Children's שצר statistic on landmine casualties.
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