Yemen: 'The children have a game called airstrike in which they fall to the ground'

I travelled to Taiz at the end of September. Getting to Yemen is difficult – hardly any planes fly there, so MSF now has its own small plane, based in Djibouti. You need permission from both sides to fly to the capital Sana’a – one warring party controls the airport, the other controls the airspace – and you don’t want to get caught up in bombardments before you’ve even landed.

From Sana’a, we drove to Taiz. We had to cross numerous checkpoints, and we passed fields and fields of qat. Some bridges have been bombed out, so at times we drove straight down the wadis (dry river beds) and up the other side.