Nearly 1,500 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthi rebels died in fighting in 2020, and hundreds more the following year, the UN says.
In a report to the Security Council, experts said rebels were still recruiting children, using summer camps and a mosque to spread their ideology.
More than 10,000 children have been killed in the war that began in 2015.
Tens of thousands of adults have also died as a direct result of the fighting, with millions displaced and on the brink of famine.
In the 300-page report, the panel said it had received a list of 1,406 children recruited by the Houthis who had died on the battlefield in 2020 and 562 between January and May the following year.
The children are instructed to shout the Houthi slogan ‘death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews, victory to Islam’,” the Associated Press news agency quoted the four-member panel of experts as saying.
“In one camp, children as young as seven years of age were taught to clean weapons and evade rockets.”
It called on all parties “to refrain from using schools, summer camps and mosques to recruit children” and recommended sanctions for anyone who did not.