Hajjah, Yemen - 25 August 2018
1. Various nurses weighing children suffering from severe malnutrition at al-Thalouth health center
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mekkiya Mahdi, director of al-Thalouth health center:
"In one week, we receive 17 cases on average, of the most severe acute malnutrition, not average or at natural level, severe, to the bone."
3. Wide of village
4. Mohammed Ali Hassan cutting leaves from Halas trees
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Ali Hassan, villager:
"We cook from tree leaves, we eat from the tree, which means we do not have any nutrition; we die here in this place."
6. Tight of leaves
7. Various large pot of cooked leaves
Hajjah, Yemen - 25 August 2018
8. Various outside al-Thalouth health
9. Various inside clinic
10. Various children with severe malnutrition
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11. Various plume of smoke rising from Houthi locations.
12. Various of Saudi coalition-allied gunmen
Hajjah, Yemen - 25 August 2018
13. Various little girl outside home
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14. Setup of Dr. Meritxell Relano
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Meritxell Relano, Resident Representative in Yemen:
"Despite all what we are doing in Health, in nutrition, in wash, cash to families the situation of families, without any job without any income with no salaries to public employees, and in the middle of the war is catastrophic."
Hajjah, Yemen - 25 August 2018
16. STILL malnourished infant and mother
17. STILL group outside Aslam Health Center
18. Woman washing severly malnourished infant
The Associated Press reported this story with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
In a remote part of war-torn Yemen these children are starving.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mekkiya Mahdi, director of al-Thalouth health center in Aslam directorate in the province of Hajjah:
"In one week, we received 17 cases and that's the lowest estimate of the most severe acute malnutrition, not average or at natural level, severe, to the bone."
Families in the poor northern province of Aslam survive on and their families have nothing to eat but a green mush.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Ali Hassan, a villager from the village of Mashradah in the district of Aslam: "We cook from tree leaves, we eat from the tree, which means we do not have any nutrition; we die here, in this place."
In the first half of this year the province recorded 17,000 cases of severe malnutrition.
Around 2.9 million women and children are acutely malnourished; another 400,000 children are only a step away from starvation.
Yemen is in the midst of a three-year civil war between the Saudi-led coalition forces and Houthi rebels.
Aslam is part of the Houthi heartland. It has been heavily bombarded by the coalition.
Many of the local residents are marginalized – shunned by the rest of society. This means they have no leverage with authorities when it comes to food aid.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Meritxell Relano Resident Representative in Yemen, "The situation of the families, without any job without any income with no salaries for public employees, and in the middle of the war is catastrophic."
When The Associated Press inquired about the situation in Aslam, United Nations agencies expressed alarm and surprise.
An official said an investigation has been launched into why food was not reaching those in need there.
In the meantime the official said relief agencies are sending10,000 food baskets to the district along with other assistance.
