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I'm Gabriel Gatehouse.

We can hear the rumble of aeroplanes.

We can see the anti-aircraft fire going up red trace of fire.

And then the flashes from the aeroplanes.

One, two, three, followed by the thuds of their missiles as they land.

There's one.

Sanaa is a city under siege.

The bombing campaign is led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the West.

Civil war, a blockade by land and sea,

occuring a humanitarian catastrophe.

Yemen is in crisis.

I think it's around like a 12-30 something like that.

I'm going to start to sleep with my family.

Later on, I hear only just like,

shhh, suddenly it's bombing.

On the capital's main shopping street, I meet Shaif Ali.

Three people were killed here when a missile went straight through the roof

of a residential apartment block.

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