.- The United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) today warned again about the impact that the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have on children and called on warring parties to redouble their efforts to protect children of violent episodes. "The effects of violence on children caught in conflicts that escalate in the Middle East and North Africa great concern for UNICEF, said today the executive director of the UN fund for children, Anthony Lake, in a statement .
Lake said that "UNICEF is condemned attacks on civilians by armed groups" and urged all parties to the conflict to allow "immediate access by humanitarian workers to areas that are most needed" to care for their young. The head of the UN agency reviewed the devastating impact it has on younger conflicts that remain from Libya to Yemen, to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, and warned further that many of these areas children already faced numerous challenges, "even before the outbreak of the violence." "Now those children are at greatest risk," said Lake, who called on all warring parties to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to give "the necessary steps to protect children from the direct and indirect violence.
" In his review on the situation of children in conflict areas, the executive director of Unicef in Libya warned that "the continuing clashes have killed children and deprived them of their most basic needs." Only in the besieged city of Misrata, "at least twenty children have died and countless injured," said Lake, who noted that the information pointing to the use of cluster bombs over the city are "particularly alarming." Since February, there are 26 children killed in Yemen, where 800 children were injured, while also based on data from UNICEF, Syria has had nine children killed in clashes in recent weeks.
In Baréin "many demonstrators have been killed or wounded, among whom are young students," said Lake, who also drew attention to the effects on children of incoming attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, which this week caused the death of a child under 16 years. In the occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of the year, eight have died and 48 Palestinian children were injured due to attacks of the security forces of Israel and Palestinian armed groups, UNICEF explained. 
Lake said that "UNICEF is condemned attacks on civilians by armed groups" and urged all parties to the conflict to allow "immediate access by humanitarian workers to areas that are most needed" to care for their young. The head of the UN agency reviewed the devastating impact it has on younger conflicts that remain from Libya to Yemen, to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, and warned further that many of these areas children already faced numerous challenges, "even before the outbreak of the violence." "Now those children are at greatest risk," said Lake, who called on all warring parties to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to give "the necessary steps to protect children from the direct and indirect violence.
" In his review on the situation of children in conflict areas, the executive director of Unicef in Libya warned that "the continuing clashes have killed children and deprived them of their most basic needs." Only in the besieged city of Misrata, "at least twenty children have died and countless injured," said Lake, who noted that the information pointing to the use of cluster bombs over the city are "particularly alarming." Since February, there are 26 children killed in Yemen, where 800 children were injured, while also based on data from UNICEF, Syria has had nine children killed in clashes in recent weeks.
In Baréin "many demonstrators have been killed or wounded, among whom are young students," said Lake, who also drew attention to the effects on children of incoming attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, which this week caused the death of a child under 16 years. In the occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of the year, eight have died and 48 Palestinian children were injured due to attacks of the security forces of Israel and Palestinian armed groups, UNICEF explained.
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