Yemenis who fled battle for Hodeidah struggle to survive


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jul 2018

People displaced from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah sit in a host family's house where they live on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen July 10, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

ADEN (Reuters) - For days, Amal would pull her four children back from the windows each time Apache helicopters attacked the rooftop snipers in her neighbourhood south of Yemen's port city of Hodeidah.

Eventually the fighting got too much so the family fled the al-Tahita district to seek shelter in the heavily-defended city centre.

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