‘We no longer eat three meals’: Yemen’s displaced face daily fight for food

Mohamed Saed’s children still call him to the table. “Come on, Dad, come eat,” they say. Often, he tells them he is already full, even when he has gone without food.The 46-year-old teacher has not received a salary in years. Displaced three or four times since Yemen’s war began, he lives with his wife and five children in a single room in Taiz and is more than a year behind on rent.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Iran downplays possible role in Houthis’ recent Yemen victorieslist 2 of 3Are Houthis using new modified cruise missiles in Yemen’s war?list 3 of 3Yemen’s war disrupts roads and ports, deepening humanitarian crisisend of list“We no longer eat three meals,” he told Al Jazeera. “Maybe two meals and sometimes one meal.”His family was going hungry long before the latest fighting. Now, a new escalation that began in early September has forced nearly 134,000 people from their homes, including an estimated 73,000 children, according to UNICEF, leaving many more families deciding which meals to skip.Yemen’s shifting front linesYemen’s latest round of fighting has redrawn front lines after more than a decade of war, fuelling hunger and displacement.The country has bee...