ADDIS ABABA: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday said recent shelling into villages in the Afar region has killed children and left many others injured.
“Recent shelling into villages in the Afar region, on the border of Tigray, over the last few days has killed children and left many others injured,” UNICEF said in a statement issued Tuesday.
The UN Children’s Fund said as the conflict escalates, “children in northern Ethiopia are the innocent victims.”
“Yet again, the re-escalation of indiscriminate violence in northern Ethiopia has robbed children of their lives.
It further called on the warring parties to exercise an immediate cessation of hostilities.
“Once again, UNICEF calls on all parties to agree to an immediate cessation of hostilities – for the sake of the children in Ethiopia and their future,” the UN Children’s Fund said.
(File Photo: UNICEF/UN0371491/Soteras/AFP — shows A young girl recovers from her wounds at her house, in Humera, Ethiopia, on 22 November 2020.)