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With 20 Million Yemenis In Need, Aid Groups Say 'Clock Is Ticking' To End Blockade

Between a massive cholera outbreak, a desperate food shortage and deadly airstrikes, 11 million children need aid — aid that can't get through due to the Saudi-led blockade, three major agencies say.
A Yemeni man receives treatment at a hospital after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Taez, Yemen, on Tuesday.

By nearly every measure offered by the United Nations, the scale of the tragedy unfolding in Yemen is staggering: More than 20 million people need urgent humanitarian aid. At least 14 million lack basic health care or access to clean water. And more than 900,000 suffer from suspected cases of cholera, a disease that — under

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