Mideast in Pictures: Malnourished children in Yemen's Hodeidah crave food

Source: Xinhua| 2021-11-24 22:57:32|Editor: huaxia

An acutely malnourished child lies in a bed in the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city of Yemen, on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

HODEIDAH, Yemen, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeidah is home to over 300,000 children, the majority of whom are in dire need of food. The UN estimates that over 25 percent of the children in the besieged city are acutely malnourished and just one step from starvation.

An acutely malnourished child lies in a bed in the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city of Yemen, on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

An acutely malnourished child lies in a bed in the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city of Yemen, on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

An acutely malnourished child lies in a bed in the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city of Yemen, on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

Two acutely malnourished children lie in a bed in the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city of Yemen, on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

KEY WORDS: Yemen,Children,Starvation
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