2018年11月1日,从红海港口城市荷台达流离失所的Yousef Mohammed(L)看着女儿在也门萨那的避难所里准备食物。[照片/机构]萨那-作为一个55岁的父亲,他不能为自己八个饥饿的孩子准备下一顿饭,艾哈迈德·阿尔·沙拉菲没有抱怨。”总有一线希望,”他说。与成千上万饥饿的也门人不同,沙拉菲很幸运,因为在首都萨那以东一个受欢迎的地区,一家慈善面包店离他家只有几米远。”战争爆发前我们很舒服…但今天我买不起一瓶酸奶,因为它太贵了。沙拉菲每天早上从面包店收到15片面包,用来喂他饥饿的孩子。但是分配的食物还不够一顿饭吃。据面包店的资助者说,诺昆大约有750户家庭每天都能得到面包的支持。当被问及家里有没有午餐或晚餐时,沙拉菲低下头。联合国称,国际公认的阿卜杜拉布曼苏尔哈迪总统政府和武装的胡蒂叛军之间爆发了近四年的毁灭性内战,造成1万多人死亡,大部分是平民,300万人流离失所,而全面封锁和减薪使该国陷入饥荒边缘。联合国援助机构。据国际儿童权利组织“拯救儿童”发布的最新数据显示,2015年4月至2018年10月,估计有85000名5岁以下的儿童死于极端饥饿。联合国负责人道主义事务的副秘书长马克·洛科克上个月对联合国安理会说,“大约1400万也门人民,占该国人口的一半,正面临饥荒前的状况,这意味着他们完全依靠外部援助来生存。”12月6日,也门各党派开始由联合国在瑞典发起的结束战争的和平谈判。先前的两次和平努力都未能导致任何政治妥协。根据政府和胡蒂方的声明,周六,在关于重新开放萨那机场和从红海港口城市荷台达撤出敌对武装人员的辩论中,敌对谈判代表同意交换战俘的档案。萨那的父亲、居民沙拉菲说,他希望战争很快结束。”我们希望瑞典的所有谈判方都能达成一个最终的、完整的解决方案来结束战争……为了所有也门人民,”他说。新华
Yousef Mohammed (L), who has been displaced from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, looks at his daughter as she prepares food in a shelter in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov 1, 2018. [Photo/Agencies]

SANAA - As a 55-year-old father who cannot secure the next meal for his eight starving children, Ahmed al-Sharafi doesn't complain.

"There is always a glimmer of hope," he said.

Unlike millions of starving Yemenis, Sharafi is lucky as a charity bakery is only a few meters away from his house in a popular quarter east of the capital Sanaa.

"We were very comfortable before the war erupted ... but today I cannot afford a bottle of yogurt because it's too expensive," Sharafi said.

Sharafi receives 15 pieces of bread each morning from the bakery to feed his hungry children. But the allocation is not enough for one meal.

Around 750 families in Noqum receive the daily support of bread, according to those who fund the bakery.

Asked if his family has lunch or dinner, Sharafi lowered his head.

Nearly four years of devastating civil war, between the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and armed Houthi rebels, have killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, and displaced 3 million, while the all-out blockade and cut in salaries have pushed the country to the brink of famine, according to the United Nations aid agencies.

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of 5 may have died from extreme hunger between April 2015 and October 2018, according to the latest data released by Save the Children, an international organization for children's rights.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock told the UN Security Council last month that "about 14 million Yemeni people, half of the country's population, are facing pre-famine conditions, meaning they are entirely reliant on external aid for survival".

On Dec 6, the Yemeni parties started peace talks sponsored by the UN in Sweden to end the war. Two previous peace efforts failed to result in any political compromise.

The rival negotiators agreed on Saturday to exchange files of war prisoners as debates are under way over the reopening of Sanaa airport and the withdrawal of rival fighters from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, according to statements from both the government and Houthi side.

Sharafi, the father and a resident of Sanaa, said he hopes the war will end very soon.

"We want all negotiating parties in Sweden to reach a final and complete solution to end the war ... for the sake of all Yemeni people," he said.

Xinhua