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Government's decision to resume arms sales to Saudis is ‘tantamount to signing the death warrants’ of thousands of Yemeni children
A Yemeni woman,offers prayers at the grave of her husband who was killed during Yemen's ongoing conflict, at a cemetery in Sanaa

THE government’s decision to continue licencing arms sales to Saudi Arabia is “tantamount to signing the death warrants” of thousands of children in Yemen, charity War Child said today.

Despite a court ruling last year ordering the government to cease sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss claimed there was no pattern of deliberate breaches of international humanitarian law involving British-made weaponry in Yemen.

The Saudi-led coalition was responsible for killing and injuring at least 3,481 children from 2015 to 2019, according to the UN.

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