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Yemen’s civil war in the words of its forgotten children

“I have nightmares at night – I see aircraft hitting our house again and again,” says six-year-old Noor.

As MPs prepare to debate the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the tragic suffering of some of the conflict’s youngest victims has come to the fore. 

Two years since the civil war began, at least 1,546 children have been killed and 2,450 maimed.

Nine-year-old Ali wears two hearing aids and barely speaks after an airstrike hit a building near his home in Sa’ada Governorate. The blast threw him from a window and he fell two storeys, before landing on his neck...

 

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