![]() ![]() The other half, including this neighborhood, is under the control of the pro-government forces. In 2014, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels overthrew the Saudi-backed government. It's been like that for many people here since the war erupted. TANIS: They say they haven't seen their parents and siblings in eight years. It used to take me just 15 minutes to drive to work, and then suddenly it took seven hours. So they moved here.ĪBDULLAH: (Through interpreter) They drew a line through the city blocking access, and you had to go all the way around through the mountains to get to the other side. But the line cut off the father from his job at a fruit market. They used to live on the other side of the frontline that divides the city. TANIS: Inside one of the bullet-riddled homes lives a family of six - Arif Abdullah, his wife Bashaer Ali and their four daughters. ![]() NPR's Fatma Tanis visited one family living on the frontline and has the story.įATMA TANIS, BYLINE: The scars of a vicious civil war are all over this frontline neighborhood where there often is a sniper who shoots at the street.ĪRIF ABDULLAH: (Non-English language spoken). And even as the fighting has decreased, there's no sign that the country will be unified anytime soon. ![]() Thousands of families there are divided, even though they might be just a few miles apart. Now how the war in Yemen has affected people not by physical injury or violence but by separation. ![]()
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