Yemenis Unable to Reach Hospital Are Part of the Iran War Death Toll

SANA’A, Yemen — For more than two weeks, Abdullah laid at home in al-Silw district, in Yemen’s besieged southwestern governorate of Taiz, as his body slowly failed. The 58-year-old had lived with kidney failure for two years, and his doctor had prescribed dialysis twice a week. Since the siege, however, the fighting stood between al-Eissi and the dialysis center in Taiz city that kept him alive. Al-Eissi wouldn’t let his family risk their lives to take him to the center. “My father’s condition deteriorated badly,” said his son, Muadh, 38. “We couldn’t move him to Taiz because the fighting had intensified.” About a week ago, al-Eissi died at home in his bed. “When I saw my mother weeping for her husband,...

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