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Children starve as Yemen teeters on a return to fighting

A malnourished boy is placed on a scale at the Hays Rural Hospital in Hodeida, Yemen, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. For years starvation has been an everyday threat for Yemen's children. [AP]

An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered with sores. She can barely open her eyes.

Hafsa Ahmed is about 2. About a dozen other children in the red-brick hospital in this southern Yemeni city are also dying of starvation.

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