A prolonged siege on Yemen’s third-largest city has left residents facing severe shortages of oxygen, food, and water, with reports of massacres occurring amid the crisis. The governor accused the Houthis of deliberately imposing conditions resembling a "stone age" existence, citing overflowing rubbish and blocked waste sites as part of the breakdown. Urgent calls are being made for international intervention to ease the month-long blockade and address the worsening humanitarian situation. The briefing highlights escalating violence and collapsing infrastructure as the city struggles to survive.
Oxygen, food and water supplies running low and massacres taking place, says Nabil ShamsanThe Houthis are trying to send the city of Taiz back to the stone age, the city’s governor said in a briefing designed to urge the international community to do more to lift the month-long siege.Nabil Shamsan said massacres were taking place in Yemen’s third city, that oxygen and water supplies were running out and that rubbish was piling up in the streets due to landfill sites being either full or inaccessible. Continue reading...
