Yemenis suffer with war, hardship of life in Taiz
(26 Mar 2023)
YEMEN TAIZ SUFFERING
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Taiz, Yemen - 8 March 2023
1. Various of Yemeni father Ali Ahmed with his daughter Shaimaa, who lost her right leg to a shell, walking with crutches
2. Various of Ahmed talking and pointing to hill from which the shell fired
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaimaa Ali, Yemeni child who lost her right leg to a shell:
"We were playing at 10 o'clock in the evening when the shell was fired from there. I was here, I was playing with the boy and while walking, the shell hit us. I did not feel anything until the next day when I found myself in the hospital. I tried to reach for my leg. I asked my father, 'where is my leg?' He told me that I was injured the previous day and that I had lost my leg. I asked him, "so from this day onwards, I will live without a leg?' He said, 'my daughter, we have to thank God for everything, and we will stay by your side. Nothing is impossible.' The idea that nothing is impossible stayed with me."
4. Shaimaa's hands
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaimaa Ali, Yemeni child who lost her right leg to a shell:
"God willing, I will manage to finish education despite the fact that I wasted a year when I was injured. The important thing is that I will continue my studies. I dream of becoming a lawyer so that I can defend the rights of Yemeni children. And I have a message to the international organizations and human rights groups: Why don't you care for the children of Taiz? Why are they disregarded so much? Don't you see us as humans? Save us from the Houthi missiles and snipers that continue to threaten us."
6. Various of Taiz streets
7. Ahmed arriving home
8. Various of Ahmed eating with his children
9. Various of Ahmed and children taking empty bottles of water to fill them from tank outside their home
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Ahmed, Yemeni father:
"When it comes to food like wheat, there are a few organizations that hand out a ration of wheat every three months and that is handed out to some families only. Some organizations do not include this area in their aid handouts at all. The residential part of the city is in the line of fire and no aid has entered for a while. The area was not even considered in the humanitarian response plans of aid organizations like other parts of the city that get financial support, food and health care services."
11. Various of children playing on street
12. Various of Ahmed sitting with daughter Shaimaa
STORYLINE:
Despite its proximity to fighting, Yemeni father Ali Ahmed chose not to leave his home west of the city of Taiz all those years, and his daughter's life will never be the same.
It was on a day in the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in 2017 that Shaimaa was hit by a shell, fired by Houthi rebels, while playing near her home.
She was only a six-year-old child when she lost her right leg as a result of the injury she sustained that day.
The neighbor's child she was playing with when the shell hit lost his life, and Shaimaa only remembers waking up the next day in the hospital.
"I tried to reach for my leg. I asked my father, 'where is my leg?' He told me that I was injured the previous day and that I had lost my leg," she says.
She lost a year of school after she was injured, but is determined to complete her education and pursue her dream of becoming a lawyer.
"I dream of becoming a lawyer so that I can defend the rights of Yemeni children," Shaimaa says.
He complains that aid organizations often overlook the area where he and his family live.
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