A study of the non-governmental organization "Save The Children" showed that five years of war in Yemen had left a "devastating effect" on the mental health of an entire generation of children in this country, and pushed a number of them to the brink of depression.
More than half of the children surveyed said they felt sad and depressed.
More than 7,522 children have been killed and maimed in the past five years, according to the report.
The report said that about 2.1 million children under the age of five are suffering from acute malnutrition.
The conflict has also forced two million children from their homes, and at least two million children have been forced to abandon school.
This study comes at a time when the emerging Coronavirus threatens the already weakened health system due to the five-year-old war.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the worst humanitarian crisis in the world has yet to be recorded, but there is great fear that the epidemic, if it reaches the poorest countries of the Arabian Peninsula, will cause a human disaster.
Yemen is witnessing a collapse in its health sector, while more than 3.3 million displaced people live in schools and camps where diseases, like cholera, are spread due to the scarcity of clean water.
Caroline Siegen, director of "Doctors Without Borders" projects in Yemen, Iraq and Jordan, said that Yemenis "cannot get clean water, and some of them cannot even get soap."
UNICEF says that 18 million people, including 9.2 million children in Yemen, do not have direct access to "safe water, sanitation and hygiene."
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