As US strikes are sowing death across Yemen, the world is once again ignoring our suffering.


Manal Qaed Alwesabi is a Yemeni journalist based in Hodeidah.
As US strikes are sowing death across Yemen, the world is once again ignoring our suffering.

Even if foreign intervention ends, the war will not stop until Yemenis decide to forgive.
![Fighters loyal to the Houthis hold up posters with the portraits of fallen comrades killed in recent battles, during a mass funeral for them at al-Saleh Mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa on February 16, 2021 [File: AFP/ Mohammed Huwais]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_93494N.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Since the beginning of the cholera outbreak, Yemen has seen close to 1.5 million cases – one of them was my mother.

I am bringing to this world another potential child victim of the Yemeni war and I don’t know how I will forgive myself.

Residents say they can’t afford to flee Hodeidah and are instead trying to live ‘normal lives’ amid the chaos of war.
