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Giving Birth in Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors of Pregnancy in Yemen

In a country that is being slowly starved and bombed to death, pregnant women and children are among those suffering worst.

Horeh was five months pregnant with her second child when an airstrike destroyed her uncle's house in the Amran Governorate in western Yemen.

"It was very loud," the 30 year old remembers. "The explosion was very close." Then she heard the screams of women in the neighborhood. "I heard my neighbors outside shouting that my family had been hit. My brothers came to my house with blood on their faces and hands. They told me my uncle's house had been destroyed and a whole innocent family killed. "

Terrified and in shock, Horeh began bleeding. The next day, she miscarried.

For the last two years, Yemen has been in the throes of a brutal civil war between the US and Saudi-backed Yemeni government and Houthi insurgents. According to the UN, at least 13,000 civilians have been killed in the conflict. Thanks to a naval, land, and air blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, 18.8 million people currently need food assistance, and more than 7 million people don't know where their next meal will come from.

In a country that is being slowly starved and bombed to death, pregnant women and children are among those suffering worst.

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