00:00The following report contains some disturbing images.
00:08In the villages of Yemen, it's the children who suffer most.
00:15Wherever you go, you can see the human cost of this war.
00:23Seven-month-old Fatima is weak and severely malnourished.
00:29She's one of hundreds in this area alone.
00:33Her mother, Sara, tells me she won't stop crying.
00:39It breaks my heart, she says.
00:42The only thing Sara can offer her child is water.
00:46She's so malnourished herself that she's unable to breastfeed.
00:52Dr. Ashwag Muharram took me from village to village.
00:55Each time, we saw the same thing.
00:59Yemen has always been desperately poor.
01:01But the war has made things worse.
01:05With frequent airstrikes, it's too dangerous for people to leave this area.
01:10They rely upon people like Ashwag and the little aid she can deliver.
01:16Today, she's here to visit another child who's suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
01:24Abdurrahman is 18 months old, but weighs as much as a six-month-old baby.
01:30Born one month after the start of the war, he has been malnourished all his life.
01:35So he can't even walk or talk.
01:40Lactose intolerant, Abdurrahman can't digest normal milk.
01:46Before the war, the milk he needs was widely available.
01:50But his condition now is life-threatening.
01:54It's not just the villages that are struggling.
01:58This war has forced 600 hospitals to close down.
02:02And lack of supplies has pushed this central hospital to the brink.
02:10Children are the most affected by malnutrition.
02:12Here, hunger has left one and a half million children starving.
02:22This is four-year-old Shuayb.
02:26His grandfather brought him here with fever and diarrhea.
02:31Malnutrition has meant his immune system isn't able to fight a simple infection.
02:36And severe shortage of medicine means the antibiotic he needs isn't available either.
02:43The antibiotics we have will not treat the type of bacteria that he is suffering from.
02:49All we can do is provide health care with the supplies that we have.
02:57The hospital is overwhelmed with children.
03:00But in some cases, malnutrition has turned into outright starvation.
03:08Salim is eight years old.
03:13Once able to play and talk to his brothers and sisters, his mother says, although he's alive, it's as if
03:20he's no longer here.
03:26I never imagined I would ever see a child like this in Yemen.
03:30This boy is starving.
03:32It scares me that it may be the beginning of a famine.
03:38According to UN figures, there are now 370,000 children with the same level of malnutrition as Salim.
03:49Four-year-old Shuayb's grandfather tells us his condition has taken a turn for the worse.
04:14He just had fever and diarrhea and because they didn't have his medicine, he passed away.
04:28Back in the village, Shuayb has some good news.
04:32After six days of phone calls and negotiations, Shuayb managed to import his life-saving milk.
04:41You've made me so happy and filled our home with happiness.
04:44I hope I can do the same for you.
04:48Poverty has always affected Yemen, but now there's a risk of losing an entire generation.
04:56Nawal al-Maghafi, BBC News, Hudayda, Yemen.
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