UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or maimed in Yemen since 2015

FILE PHOTO: Artist Haifa Subay paints a mural about children's suffering in the time of war as part of the 'Silent Victims' campaign in Sanaa, Yemen November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

GENEVA (Reuters) - Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Iran-aligned Houthi group ousted the government, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday.

"The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone. We now have 10,000 children who have been killed or maimed since ... March 2015," UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a U.N. briefing in Geneva after returning from a visit to Yemen.