Houthis Largely Encircle Taiz, Cutting Off Supplies After Key Town Falls
Residents face rising food and fuel shortages as the Houthis cut the main road to Aden and 121,000 people are displaced, the IOM said.
- Houthi rebels have largely encircled Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, after capturing the strategic town of At Turbah on October 4, cutting off the main supply route connecting the city with government-held areas.
- The blockade has intensified fears among more than one million residents, as shortages of food, fuel, cooking gas and essential goods threaten to worsen living conditions.
- Hospitals in Taiz are facing a growing humanitarian crisis, with dwindling stocks of medicines, medical supplies and fuel threatening emergency treatment, surgeries and other critical health services.
- Renewed clashes between Houthi fighters and forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognised government have forced families to flee their homes, while shelling and gunfire continue in surrounding areas.
- Yemeni government forces have launched counteroffensive operations to challenge the Houthi advance, but the continuing blockade raises concerns about further civilian suffering, rising prices and a worsening humanitarian emergency.
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Over a million Yemenis are trapped in the strategic mountain city of Taiz. This is as a result of the fighting between the parties to the civil war, which has now also reached the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world's most important shipping routes. - The humanitarian situation has deteriorated further, says doctor Fathi Hazam, 55, from Taiz to DN.
The supply routes to the third largest Yemeni city of Taizz were cut off by the Huthi rebels. The inhabitants are threatened with a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Houthis have almost surrounded Taiz, Yemen’s third most populous city, cutting off its main supply routes. According to the Financial Times, quoted by RBC, in recent days the militants have advanced along key routes into the city, and its main entrances have already become a front line. Only a few cars have managed to reach Taiz. Residents say leaving the city is dangerous because of the need to cross the line of battle. Fuel tankers cannot …
The Huthis cut off the big city in Yemen from supplies, wheat and fuel are missing. The World Food Programme warns of a humanitarian disaster.
Huthi militias advance to the strategically important city of Tais. The population suffers from the siege.
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