Yemen health crisis spikes after aid cuts and U.S., Israeli airstrikes

Yemen health crisis spikes after aid cuts and U.S., Israeli airstrikes

Yemen faces a worsening humanitarian crisis — and in particular, a raging cholera outbreak — in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in the spring as well as Trump administration aid cuts and punishing U.S. economic sanctions, according to doctors and humanitarian workers who have worked in the country. Attacks on ports and civilian infrastructure such as health clinics have severed lifelines to foreign supplies, said doctors and other health experts, while aid cuts and sanctions have further battered the economy of Yemen, already one of the most impoverished

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