Yemen’s Dirty War
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By Nariman El-Mofty

In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Hagar Yahia holds her daughter Awsaf, a thin 5-year-old who is getting no more than 800 calories a day from bread and tea, half the normal amount for a girl her age, in Abyan, Yemen. Yahia, a mother of eight breaks down in tears talking about her family's deprivation. Late last year, as fighting closed in on Hayis, they fled more than 200 miles, eventually ending up in the village of Red Star on the Arabian Sea coast in the south. Ever since, they've struggled to find enough food. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Sand drifts over an empty highway from Abyan to Aden in Yemen Feb. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A boy sits in a car damaged during the ongoing three year conflict in Mocha, Yemen, Feb. 10, 2018. Young men, some as young as 12, have served on the front lines throughout Yemen's 3-year-old war and as the fight drags on, they now are shattered generation. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Monir al-Sharqi walks to his bed after nurses changed the dressings on his burns, at the Marib General Hospital in Yemen in this July 25, 2018 photo. Al-Sharqi, a lab technician, disappeared for a year, until he was dumped in a stream, half-naked, emaciated and bearing horrific marks of torture. He had burns from acid over his head, back and shoulders, so severe that his jacket stuck to his melted skin. Some members of his family believe he was detained and tortured by Yemen’s Houthi rebels because of his past political activism. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Feb. 12, 2018 photo, shows a damaged sing with Arabic that reads, "Yemen," on the road from Aden to Mocha in Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Umm Mizrah, a 25-year-old Yemeni mother, reveals her collarbones and emaciated ribs to be photographed, in this Feb. 13, 2018 photo at Al-Sadaqa Hospital in Aden, Yemen. Umm Mizrah, who is nearly into the second trimester of pregnancy, weighs 38 kilograms (84 pounds) and is severely undernourished. She has been eating one meal a day trying to feed her youngest son, who is badly malnourished. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

This Feb. 13, 2018 photo shows photographs of severely malnourished infants hung on wall in the administrative office at the Aden Hospital, in Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Twenty-year-old Sakr Abd Mohammed, who suffers from severe injuries after a car accident, rests in the ICU to get treatment at the General Hospital in Marib, Yemen, July 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A doctor shows on her mobile phone a photo of Fadl, an 8-month-old Yemeni boy taken in his last days before he starved to death, in this Feb. 10, 2018 photo at a hospital in Mocha, Yemen. Fadl’s mother gave birth to him under a tree as she fled fighting, and ever since she struggled to get him enough food. Eight months later, at the time of his death, the baby boy weighed 2.9 kilograms (6 pounds), a third of the normal weight for his age. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo, Umm Mizrah, a 25-year-old Yemeni woman, holds her son Mizrah on a scale in Al-Sadaqa Hospital in the southern Yemen city of Aden in this Feb. 13, 2018 photo. Envoys from Yemen’s warring parties are headed to Sweden for another round of peace talks to stop the three-year-old war, but with few incentives to compromise, expectations are low for little more than improving a faltering de-escalation. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

This Feb. 17, 2018 photo shows a damaged theme park in Aden, Yemen. The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen’s southern port city and designated seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Awsaf, a 5-year-old Yemeni girl, eats bread and drinks tea _ which on many days is the only food she has _ crouching next to her mother in their hut in Abyan, Yemen, in this Feb. 15, 2018 photo. Across southern Yemen stretches a landscape of desperation, in towns, villages and camps for the displaced, families are left unable to afford food amid the civil war between Houthi rebels and a government backed by a destructive Saudi-led air campaign. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Feb. 11, 2018 photo, damages due to the war at the Ibn Kholdoon Hospital, in Lahj, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Sixteen-year-old Osama Faed Ashal, a land mine victim, poses for a photograph in his home in Marib, Yemen, July 26, 2018. Houthis' land mines killed and injure thousands and it's their trademark. Osama picked the mine from the ground thinking it was a toy. It exploded and left him without a hand. He lives in a neighborhood with at least three other children affected by land mine injuries. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this July 27, 2018, photo, 14 year-old Abdel Hamid, second right, and 14 year-old Morsal, third right, sit at a camp for displaced persons where they took shelter, in Marib, Yemen. Both boys were child solders forcibly enlisted by Houthi rebels and put to work carrying ammunition and supplies to the front lines. Abdel-Hamid says he saw children get shot for disobeying orders. Morsal suffered partial hearing loss from explosions and airstrikes. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Feb. 12, 2018, file, photo, homeless children stand on the road from Khoukha to Taiz in Yemen. Envoys from Yemen’s warring parties are headed to Sweden for another round of peace talks to stop the three-year-old war, but with few incentives to compromise, expectations are low for little more than improving a faltering de-escalation.(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Aug. 3, 2018 photo, a woman walks through Ibb, Yemen. Travelling across Yemen, an Associated Press team found "in-between" moments everywhere _ Yemenis fitting their normal lives in between the destruction wreaked by four years of civil war. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, Saudi-led coalition backed forces petrol, Mocha, Yemen. Moroccan government officials said Thursday Feb. 7, 2019 that Morocco has stopped taking part in military action with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war, and has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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By Maad al-Zikry
