Roughly half of all Yemeni children under the age of five are malnourished — a total of 2.4 million, while 17.8 million people in the country require health support, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Recent events over the Red Sea and attacks on Yemen, as the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory worsens, can reverse the hard-gained progress for peace and stability,” Arturo Pesigan, WHO’s representative in Yemen, told a UN briefing in Geneva via video link.