The sad video of the undernourished girl weighing 10 kilos travels the world

This video that has become viral Fatima Qoba, the girl of only 12 years, exposes the terrible and extreme poverty lived in Yemen, one of the Middle East countries where poverty is greatest. Images can affect sensitivity.

The people in Yemen are currently at war. The girl, who was suffering from a state of advanced malnutrition, was found under a tree.

Fatima Qoba, was born in Yemen and became news after you knew the images that served to demonstrate a little poverty and extreme crisis in the country.

She was rescued and transferred urgently to an Aslam clinic because she weighed only 10 kilograms and had a severe case of child malnutrition.

"This is the most extreme form of malnutrition," said Makiah al-Aslami, head of the clinic located in northwestern Yemen.

"All the fat stores in his body are exhausted, he only has bone left," the doctor said, according to reports in the international media.

When he appeared,The girl lived under a tree, like her father and 10 brothers, who were forced to leave their homes in the border region of Saudi Arabia, desperately escaping the intense bombardment of the region.

"We do not have money to buy food, all we have is what our neighbors and family members have given us," said Fatima's older sister at 39, a conversation with Reuters.

Yemen is considered the country currently experiencing the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations, because of the civil war that has been raging on its territory since 2015.

At the end of last year, the Save the Childen organization announced that some 85,000 children under the age of five had died of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the armed conflict in Yemen.

The heartbreaking story of Fatima Qoba travels the world and RT's video has been reproduced and shared thousands of times.

Sources: Miter Radio, Daily Mail, RT, Reuters

Caution: sensitive images.

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