Yemen
War
Nearly 19
million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian aid, according to the UN,
but the worst of the civilian impact of the two-year civil war in the
country has fallen on the coastal fishing area around the Red Sea
coastal district of Tuhayat.
As RT’s
Arabic-language crew visited the area, they witnessed scenes of chaos
– as locals scrambled to gain food – and quiet desperation, with
many residents swollen with hunger, waiting for outside help, or
resigned to their fate.
Salem is an
eight-year-old boy, though like many in similar areas around the
world, he looks small enough to be mistaken for a toddler.
“We
have no energy left, and I have no money with which to treat my
child,” says his mother, admitting that the boy is severely
malnourished, just one of more than 1.5 million children suffering
from the same fate in the country, according to the United Nations.
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