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A Saudi blockade compounds the suffering in Yemen

A 2-month-old boy, severely malnourished and just over 4 lb. (2 kg), is weighed at a hospital in the northern Houthi stronghold of Saada on Oct. 29

ON AUG. 24, MISARAH MOHAMMED Maisar woke up in a hospital. An air raid had struck her house in Faj Attan, south of Yemen’s capital, Sana‘a. First she learned that her 3-year-old and 14-year-old children had been killed in the blast. Then doctors told her that a fragment of shell was lodged in her spine, paralyzing her lower limbs. The operation

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