“They live in scruffy tents or mud huts on dry, stony ground. Children play with what they have – a rubber tyre will do. Medical treatment is hard to come by for young and old alike. In northwest Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, families uprooted by the war have been stuck in camps for the past year. Around 400 of them now reside in the Shawqaba camp in Hajjah province, which borders Saudi Arabia. When fighting between Saudi forces and Houthi rebels began in March 2015, these refugees were forced to leave their villages in al-Dhahir and Shada districts in neighbouring Saada province as Saudi-led warplanes targeted Houthi positions. Residents and human rights groups say some of the strikes destroyed homes and damaged farmlands. The coalition has acknowledged mistakes in air operations in Yemen but denies Houthi allegations that its forces strike civilian targets. A few months later, the place they sought refuge, al-Mazraq camp near the border city of Harad, also in Hajjah, was bombarded. Families moved further inland to the arid Shawqaba camp that lacks the most basic services. Residents call home poorly build huts that protect them neither from summer heat nor winter cold. Many children suffer from a lack of nutrition and health services. Elderly people with diabetes and heart conditions complain of a lack of medicine - and the high prices when it is available. Yemen has been in a civil war for more than a year between supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Iran-allied Houthi group that has sucked in a Saudi-led alliance and caused a major humanitarian crisis. U.N.-sponsored peace talks are scheduled to start in Kuwait on April 18. The two sides in the conflict have confirmed a truce starting at midnight on April 10”. – Abduljabbar Zeyad via Reuters



A girl rides a donkey as another walks by at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. In northwest Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, about 400 families uprooted by the war have been stuck in the Shawqaba camp in Hajjah province for the past year. Residents live in poorly built huts that protect them neither from summer heat nor winter cold in a camp that lacks the most basic services. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





People prepare mud bricks to build a hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A girl holds her sister outside their family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A man looks on as he stands at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A woman carries a child at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy stands outside his family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 13, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy looks from a window of his family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A girl stands outside her family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





Children sit under a mosquito net outside their family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 13, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy and a girl stand at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A woman and children are pictured in their tent at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





Amal Jabir, 10, looks on as she sits at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajja March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A man and a boy sleep outside a tent at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A woman sits in her hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)