From death's door to playing with dolls: Miracle recovery of little Zuhoor - six months after she had four fingers amputated following Yemen airstrike.

Another fascinating article. For the most part, I will look to post things that are uplifting in our crazy World.

This one has a happy ending.

I believe that once we find our common thread of humanity. This will open up the World to peace. It is finding the similarities in being that will lead to our next enlightenment. And as with any major shift, change, etc.

"All great changes are proceeded by chaos."

The quick breakdown:

• Six months ago little Zuhoor was in a hospital bed after she was hit in an airstrike in Yemen

• The one-year-old had four fingers amputated as she was taken to intensive care

• Zuhoor's eyes were puffy from bruising and yellow gown was flecked with blood

• In the hospital bed opposite, another little girl, Eman's hands had to be tethered to the bed to stop her scratching her wounds

• Both girls had to be pulled from rubble when a house they were inside at a wake was hit by an airstrike

• Saudi-led strike killed Eman's mother, Zuhoor's grandmother and five relatives

• The girls were bandaged, bruised and their bodies were pocked by shrapnel bits

• But, although psychologically scarred, the girls have made remarkable recovery

(Stricken: One-year-old Zuhoor is pictured laying on a bloodstained hospital bed, her right arm bandaged after she had four fingers amputated following an airstrike on a wake in Yemen)

Six months ago little Zuhoor lay on bloodstained hospital bed fighting for life after being dragged from the rubble of a house struck by warplanes in Yemen.

The toddler, one, suffered appalling injuries to her face and body and doctor's feared she might lose her right arm and an eye.

In a nearby bed in intensive care another little girl Eman's hands had to be tethered to the bed to stop her scratching her wounds.

The little girls were the innocent victims of an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition where mourners had gathered after a funeral days after an attack on a house north of the capital Sana'a.

But these new pictures from the heart of the conflict zone show the girls' remarkable recovery from their physical injuries as their pretty dresses and smiles contrast to their dark days in hospital.

(Recovery: Now, six months on, although she is psychologically scarred from the attack that killed her grandmother, Zuhoor has made a remarkable recovery as she plays with her dolls)

But while they have returned to their villages and are beginning to play again with other children, the psychological problems remain to haunt them.

Surgeons had to amputate four fingers from Zuhoor's dreadfully damaged right hand and doctors say she cannot understand why her hands are so different.

Specialists from the British-based charity Save the Children, which has provided psychological care for the girls, say Zuhoor is struggling to adapt, she can't hold things tightly and keeps looking at both her hands wondering why one has five fingers, but the other only has one.

Zuhoor's father Faisal, who pulled his wife Nadia from the same rubble in the village of Ashira, said his daughter is suffering awful nightmares and is terrified by the sounds of planes overhead.

'Although Zuhoor is slowly regaining her physical health, she remains severely shocked following the horrific experience she witnessed,' he said.

'I have noticed that she eats much less than before – her body is getting thinner by the day, and she refuses to eat even her favourite meals.

'Her psychological condition has deteriorated as well. When she hears a loud sound, such as a bang or a door slam, she panics, covers her ears and cries. She used to sleep throughout the night but she cannot sleep properly now. She recalls what happened in her nightmares and wakes up shouting and shaking.'

(Fight for life: In the hospital bed opposite Zuhoor was Eman, with her body pock marked with shrapnel and her hands tethered to the bed to stop her scratching her wounds)

(Fighting back: But 16 weeks on from those shocking pictures of Eman's badly bruised body in a hospital bed with a tube in her neck, the one year old is slowly recovering)

He continued : 'Zuhoor's brothers and sisters have become scared of the sound of aircraft like everyone in the village. When they hear an aircraft, they run outside the house to the street fearing that an aerial attack may target them. They also have constant nightmares and do not sleep at all when they hear an aircraft flying.'

Seven women in the village, including Eman's mother and Zuhoor's grandmother, died in the attack and Faisal said: 'I do not understand why we were targeted, and why we need to pay the price for this war: my mother was killed, my daughter lost her fingers, and my wife is injured.

'I wish this war ends soon. I call upon all parties to this conflict to find peaceful solutions for the sake of the innocent children, women and men. I wish all sides would stop the killing and destruction.'

The controversial air campaign by the Saudi-led Coalition targets rebels of Yemen's Houthi movement but it has been accused of killing and maiming hundreds of civilians.

More than 4,000 children have been killed or injured during the two years of bloody, bitter conflict.

The cases of Zuhoor and Eman are detailed in a devastating new investigation and report by Save the Children and Watchlist which chronicles 23 cases of 'grave violations' by the Coalition against children in Yemen.

The report warns : 'Yemen's children are under attack from all sides. For more than two years now, they have been killed and injured in their homes, on their way to school and at the marketplace with their families. They have been bombed in hospital and at funerals.

'Armed forces and groups have forcibly recruited children as soldiers with boys deprived of an education put to work on frontlines.

'All sides in Yemen's war have blocked access to basic goods like food and fuel leading to a situation in which a staggering 1.8million children under five are acutely malnourished. Now a massive cholera epidemic which is a direct consequence of the conflict is spreading across the country.'

More than 360,000 suspected cases have been reported in the past three months – a record – and aid workers fear it could rise to 600,000.

(Surgeons had to amputate four fingers from Zuhoor's dreadfully damaged right hand and doctors say she cannot understand why her hands are so different)

(Zuhoor's father Faisal said she suffers awful nightmares and is terrified by the sounds of planes overhead. 'Although Zuhoor is slowly regaining her physical health, she remains severely shocked following the horrific experience she witnessed,' he said.)

Over 2,000 have died. The report adds : 'All this takes place against a backdrop of apathy and inaction from the international community.'

The charity is calling on the United Nations to place the Saudi-led Coalition on a 'list of shame' alongside all other parties to Yemen's conflict and groups like ISIS and the African-based Al Shabaab and Boko Haram.

Last year the Coalition was briefly put on the 'list of shame' – but was removed after claims of intensive back-room lobbying. Stigma attached to the list acts as an international 'naming and shaming' process.

To date, it has compelled 27 parties from across the world's conflicts to sign up to UN-monitored action plans to end violations against children.

The Coalition, which began military operations in March 2015 to try to restore the administration of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who the Houthis ousted, insists it does not target civilians and does everything possible to avoid casualities.

Britain has faced strong criticism after weapons and munitions sold to Saudi Arabia were found to have been used in coalition airstrikes.

There have also been claims that UK military advisors have been working with the coalition, helping to plan the strikes – allegations denied.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4718514/Incredible-recovery-little-girl-hit-Yemen-airstrike.html#ixzz4xmNmrDgu