In Ramadan, Yemen’s Houthis intensify child soldiers recruitment

In Ramadan, Yemen’s Houthis intensify child soldiers recruitment

On a quiet winter Saturday morning in January 2026, children walked along dirt roads in a small village in the Al-Udayn district of Yemen's Ibb governorate, carrying their school bags and laughing like children everywhere. Nothing suggested the school, supposedly the safest place in a child's life, could become a site of death. That day, 31 January, Mohammed Adel, 14, did not return home. He died inside his school, shot by a classmate during liv…