Twelve-year-old girl weighs just 22lbs as Yemen's war drives people to the ...

These heartwrenching images of a 12-year-old starving girl, so weak she has to be carried by her sister, shows just one of millions of victims of Yemen's civil war. 

Fatima Qoba weighs just 22lbs - no more than an average toddler - and years of starvation has left her with paper-thin skin stretched over her bones.

She is receiving treatment at a malnutrition clinic in Hajjah, northwest Yemen, after her desperate sibling brought her there, fearing she would die.

Victims: Displaced by war, starving and living under a tree, 12-year-old Fatima Qoba weighed just 22lbs when she was carried into a Yemeni malnutrition clinic by her sister

Displaced by war, starving and living under a tree, 12-year-old Fatima Qoba weighed just 22lbs when she was carried into a Yemeni malnutrition clinic by her sister

Starving: Fatima is one of ten million Yemenis brought to the brink of famine by the civil war 

Starving: Fatima is one of ten million Yemenis brought to the brink of famine by the civil war 

Wasting away: A photo of the 12-year-old shows her skin stretched over her shoulder-blades and spine 

Wasting away: A photo of the 12-year-old shows her skin stretched over her shoulder-blades and spine 

'All the fat reserves in her body have been used up, she is left only with bones,' Makiah al-Aslami, a doctor and head of the clinic says.

'She has the most extreme form of malnutrition.'

Fatima's slide into starvation is typical of what is happening in much of Yemen, where war and economic collapse have driven around ten million people to the brink of famine, according to the United Nations.

Aslami said she is expecting more and more malnutrition cases to come through her door. This month she is treating more than 40 pregnant women with severe malnutrition.

'So in the coming months I expect I will have 43 underweight children,' she said.

Fatima, her sister and their nine siblings were forced to flee their home with their father and now live under a tree

Fatima, her sister and their nine siblings were forced to flee their home with their father and now live under a tree

The family fled bombardment from the Saudi-led coalition, which intervened in Yemen in 2015, and have not been able to return home since

The family fled bombardment from the Saudi-led coalition, which intervened

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