Amal Hussain, the Yemeni girl who made the "one" of the "New York Times", died of malnutrition

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" My heart is broken, said his mother, Mariam Ali, at New York Times. Amal was always smiling. Now, I'm worried about my other children. " In his article, the newspaper explains that the portrait that had been devoted to him in his pages "Aroused a pbadionate response from readers. They expressed their sorrow. They offered money to his family. They wrote to find out if she was better.

And goes back to the circumstances of the meeting with the girl, who was then hospitalized:

" On a trip to Yemen to see the toll of the war, we found Amal in a health center in Aslam, 90 miles away [145 km] northwest of the capital, Sanaa. She was lying on a bed with her mother. The nurses fed her milk every two hours, but she vomited regularly and suffered from diarrhea. (…) Amal's mother was also sick, recovering from a bout of dengue fever she had most likely contracted from mosquitoes breeding in the stagnant waters of their camp. "

Amal Hussain is, according to the British NGO Save the Children, one of the 5 million Yemeni children affected by the famine caused by the war, which, since 2015, opposes Houthi rebels backed by Iran to the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

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Censorship of Facebook

By publishing this photo in "one", the New York Times broke with a restraint often put on it. In a tribune attached to the article, the newspaper justified its approach. "The killing of one man (Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi) has attracted more attention from the world than the current catastrophe in Yemen", regretted the journalist Eric Nagourney and the editor-in-chief of the international pages of the New York Times, Michael Slackman, before delivering: " These images reveal the horror of Yemen today. You can choose to look away. But we felt that this decision belonged to you. "

After the publication of this "one", many Internet users complained that they could not share it on Facebook. The platform suppressed their message shortly after publication. She believes that the photo of Amal Hussain violates the rules of Facebook because it shows a bare minor. Criticized, the social network had finally decided to restore the messages.