Houthis Largely Encircle Taiz, Cutting Off Supplies After Key Town Falls
UN agencies warn wheat, fuel and oxygen shortages could deepen as Houthi control cuts Taiz’s main supply route, officials 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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At the beginning of October, the armed group, supported by Iran, closed the last major supply route linking the town to Aden, where the government recognized by the international community sits.
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The Yemeni city of Taiz is completely surrounded by Houthi rebels. All supply lines are cut off; people and goods cannot enter or leave the city. Due to its strategic location, the country's third-largest city has been a trump card for the warring parties for years. Once again, it is a major front in the recently flared-up war between the Houthis and the Yemeni government army. The United Nations and international aid organizations cannot reach …
UN demands aid access to besieged Yemen city Taiz
Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, interim capital of the Saudi-backed, internationally-recognised government. "Humanitarian aid must be immediately allowed to enter the city and its passage must be facilitated," UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. He said relief must reach the city to avert a rights catastrophe. "The Houthis' closure of the only supply route linki…
UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk demands that humanitarian aid be allowed into Taiz in Yemen immediately. The country's third-largest city has been surrounded by the Houthis since early October. The rebels are trying to capture Taiz.
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nexusnewsfeed.comAs Houthis encircle Taiz, Yemen's Saudi-backed gov't faces disaster
Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, endured a siege from 2015 to 2017. Today, it is encircled again.The World Food Program says it cannot reach more than 600,000 people in and around the city. The International Organization for Migration counts over 200,000 people displaced since the Houthi offensive on Yemen’s Red Sea coast launched in September.Why this city, and why now? The Houthis, formally known as the Ansar Allah movement, draw their streng…
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