800,000 Yemenis Cut Off From Food as Front-Line Hospitals Strain
The Red Cross says some front-line facilities recorded more than 700 admissions in a week, while the UN migration agency has counted more than 200,000 displaced people. Fighting around a major shipping passage is deepening the pressure on families and relief agencies.
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Yemen's renewed fighting is putting front-line hospitals under severe pressure and cutting food assistance to around 800,000 people, relief agencies said, as families flee a response short of money.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on October 14 that some front-line facilities had recorded more than 700 admissions in a single week. Marib, Taiz and the Red Sea coast were among the areas bearing the heaviest casualty burdens.
Fighting and road closures have meanwhile cut off life-saving assistance to around 800,000 people in Taiz and other affected areas, the World Food Programme said, according to Reuters. Some districts were inaccessible, wheat-flour stocks were nearly exhausted and food in local markets might last only a short time.
The fighting pits the Iran-aligned Houthis against Yemen's Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government. A government counter-offensive around Bab al-Mandab, the shipping passage linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, has unfolded alongside Houthi attacks on Saudi airports and threats against Saudi-linked ships, according to the UN envoy.
The latest agency accounts show the pressure inside Yemen, where hospitals must treat a surge of wounded people while food deliveries are blocked and displacement grows.
