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Battle of Al-Hudaydah: Civilians Trapped as Fighting Rages

Battle of Al-Hudaydah: Civilians Trapped as Fighting Rages
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Civilians in Yemen's port city of al-Hudaydah are dodging airstrikes in an attempt to flee advancing the Saudi-led coalition forces.

Battle of Al-Hudaydah: Civilians Trapped as Fighting Rages

Fierce fighting has broken out over the strategic city's airport.

Airstrikes pounded southern neighborhoods and are deafening even from afar, resident Ahmed Abdullah Nasser said.

"People are trying to leave with rockets and mortars over their heads," a local aid worker, who wished not to use her name, told The Independent on Monday. 

"Other people are besieged in their homes. They don't know if their family members managed to escape or who survived."

"It's hot and there is no water and we are scared," she added. "Please stop what is happening," he added.

At least 280 people are believed to have lost their lives in the six days since the Saudi-led aggression launched the so-called ‘Operation Golden Victory' to seize the city.

Aid organizations have been unable to reach southern neighborhoods with food and chlorine tablets for purifying water.

There are no reliable figures for how many of the city's 600,000 residents have been displaced from their homes, but the aid worker estimated at least 1,000 had tried to leave for the nearby village of Marawiah.

The battle for al-Hydaydah is the biggest to date in Yemen's crisis.

Its residents have already endured three years of airstrikes and a Saudi-led blockade on the port, which has exacerbated a nationwide hunger crisis and created a cholera epidemic. 

Source: The Independent, Edited by website team

 

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