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Watch: Children in Yemen face homelessness and malnutrition as war rages

ByOrla GuerinSenior International Correspondent, Reporting fromAden
  • Published45 minutes ago

From the day they were born, just seven weeks ago, twins Raghad Hassan and her brother Raad have been battling for survival.

They came into the world prematurely, as fighting surged in Yemen's long-running civil war between Houthi rebel fighters and government forces.

When the Houthis reached their village in the Kahboub mountains in south-west Yemen, their family of seven was forced to flee amid bombs, missiles, and drone attacks – the twins protected only by blankets.