‘We Left in the Clothes We Were Wearing’: Yemenis Flee New Fighting — SkimNews
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- Renewed fighting between Iran-backed Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government has displaced more than 46,000 people in the past week alone, a UN agency estimated Friday.
- Houthi-government clashes are widening a regional conflict that began earlier this year with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, intensifying Yemen's decade-long civil war.
- Yemen's humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels, with at least half the population hungry, millions of children unvaccinated, and a measles outbreak spreading nationwide.
- Al-Megdad Hashem and his family fled Taiz province after shells wounded his nephew, cramming 34 people — including his wife, four children, and elderly parents — onto a construction materials truck to reach a hospital.
- Taiz province remains among the most fiercely contested, with families like Hashem's grabbing only what they could carry into a single small bag before escaping.
Why it matters: Yemen's decade-long civil war had already left half the population hungry and millions of children unvaccinated — each new displacement wave deepens that crisis, pushing a country already on the brink toward conditions where measles spreads unchecked and 34-person families pile onto construction trucks just to reach a hospital.
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