At least 46,000 flee fighting in Yemen: UN
The International Organization for Migration said the number has more than doubled in days as fighting spread across western Yemen.
- On Friday, the United Nations reported that at least 46,000 people have fled their homes since fighting escalated in Yemen last week, more than doubling from the 18,500 displaced on Tuesday.
- The Iran-backed Houthis launched a large-scale offensive last week against Saudi-backed government forces, seizing the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday and a key island in the Bab al-Mandab strait on Friday.
- "Entire villages are reported to have emptied" to the west of Taiz, according to the International Organization for Migration, while the critical Mocha-Taiz road has reportedly been cut.
- International Organization for Migration chief Amy Pope warned that "as fighting spreads, reaching people with lifesaving assistance is becoming harder," urging all parties to protect humanitarian workers and facilities.
- Saudi Arabia responded to the offensive with dozens of airstrikes, with the latest two hitting Mocha airport, according to Houthi media reports on Friday.
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The Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned that the number of displaced persons in Yemen had increased at an alarming rate, stressing that at least 46,000 people had been displaced since the escalation of fighting last week, amid increasing difficulties in reaching those affected and providing life-saving assistance.
Some 46,000 Yemenis have become displaced since the recent escalation of the conflict between the Husite and the internationally recognized Yemeni Government, reports the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Friday. "At least 46,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since the escalation of hostilities last week in Yemen.
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The Frontier Post‘Families are being forced to flee for the second or third time in this conflict, with almost nothing left,’ says IOM Director General Amy Pope
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