CRC/C/SAU/CO/3-4 Children in armed conflict 38. The Committee is deeply concerned at credible, corroborated and consistent information that the State party, through its military operation in Yemen, has been committing grave violations of children’s rights. In particular, the Committee expresses its deep concern at information that: (a) Hundreds of children have been killed and maimed as a result of indiscriminate air strikes and shelling by the State party-led coalition on civilian areas and camps for internally displaced persons, of unexploded cluster bomb submunitions and other unexploded ordnance, and of the dozens of attacks carried out on schools and hospitals; (b) Prohibited tactics such as inducing starvation as a method of warfare have been used by the State party-led coalition against civilians, including children, as reported by the Panel of Experts on Yemen established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2140 (2014) (see S/2016/73); (c) More than 3 million children in Yemen face life-threatening levels of malnutrition and thousands are currently at risk of dying from diseases owing to the dire humanitarian crisis, the destruction of civilian infrastructure critical to the maintenance of basic services and the imposition from both sides of obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian assistance; (d) In 2015, more than half of the attacks perpetrated on schools were attributed to the State party-led coalition (see A/70/836-S/2016/360, para. 171); these attacks continued in 2016, leaving millions of children in need of emergency access to education. 39. The Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation under article 38 of the Convention to respect and to ensure respect for the rules of international humanitarian law that are relevant to children in armed conflict and joins the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in calling upon the State party to respect and ensure respect for the prohibition on attacks against civilians and civilian objects, as well as for the core principles of precaution, distinction and proportionality, and to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need (see A/HRC/33/38, paras. 71 (b) and (d)). The Committee also urges the State party to respond positively to the High Commissioner’s call for the establishment of an international, independent investigative body to carry out comprehensive investigations of allegations of violations of international humanitarian and international human rights law in Yemen (see A/HRC/33/38, para. 74 (a)). Economic exploitation, including child labour 40. Noting the concerns expressed by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2008 about the economic and sexual exploitation and ill-treatment of migrant girls employed as domestic workers (see CEDAW/C/SAU/CO/2, para. 23), the Committee urges the State party to ensure the effective implementation of the law prohibiting the recruitment of children as domestic workers. The Committee also urges the State party to take measures to ensure that those who exploit children as domestic workers are held accountable. Children in street situations 41. Given that thousands of children, many of them victims of trafficking, continue to live and work on the streets in the State party and to be subjected to forced labour by criminal gangs, the Committee urges the State party to immediately stop the arbitrary arrest and deportation of such children and to release all children currently detained. The Committee also recommends that the State party assess the number of 11