Houthis Largely Encircle Taiz, Cutting Off Supplies After Key Town Falls
The advance has left more than 600,000 people in Taiz cut off from aid, and wheat flour stocks are nearly depleted, the UN 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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WFP warns of worsening hunger, seeks $268 million to sustain humanitarian operations in Yemen through 2027
Hospitals across Yemen face difficulties in dealing with the sharp increase in the number of war victims, while the intensification of fighting on several fronts interrupted access to essential humanitarian aid for about 800,000 people, humanitarian organizations reported on Wednesday (14).
In Yemen, the escalation of the armed conflict between the Husites and the forces of the internationally recognized Government had deprived 800,000 people of access to humanitarian assistance, and more than 18 million people faced food shortages every day, the representatives of the United Nations World Food Programme said.
According to the military, the Huthi rebels have conquered a village about 25 kilometers south of the Yemeni city of Taʿizz. Fighting is also only ten kilometers away and on a mountain directly above the city.
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