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Yemen · Security · Moderate · impact 4 of 5
First reported 3 October 2026 · latest 3 October 2026 · 1 reports from 1 outlet
Part of Yemen
One development in Houthi offensive on Yemen coast
After Houthi advances on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, families fled al-Khokha amid strikes and shortages. Nearly 198,000 people have been displaced and many lack food, water and work.
By evening, Saeed had crossed into Aden, where he was guided to a school sheltering displaced people. Eight families were crammed into a single room. They told us that only women were allowed to stay in the room, so I left my family there so they could get some rest, and I slept outside in the open, Saeed said.
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I told her, Let s take whatever luggage we can, and we ll come back for the rest tomorrow, Mohammed said. Saeed loaded luggage into his small pick-up truck and left with his wife, his two sons and their wives, his daughter and her baby. Mohammed travelled in another pick-up with his wife, a relative and their luggage.
Mohammed travelled in another pick-up with his wife, a relative and their luggage. He later picked up three men who appeared to be fleeing soldiers. The families departed about 9:30pm.
By evening, Saeed had crossed into Aden, where he was guided to a school sheltering displaced people. Eight families were crammed into a single room. They told us that only women were allowed to stay in the room, so I left my family there so they could get some rest, and I slept outside in the open, Saeed said.
I am a day labourer and can do anything, keeping bees, climbing palm trees or carrying stones. The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps, a government body that documents and tracks displacement in Yemen, said in its latest report last week that since early September, 197,906 people, or 29,519 families, had been displaced. This figure was up from about 100,000 people two weeks earlier with most of the displaced coming from Taiz governorate.
The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps, a government body that documents and tracks displacement in Yemen, said in its latest report last week that since early September, 197,906 people, or 29,519 families, had been displaced. This figure was up from about 100,000 people two weeks earlier with most of the displaced coming from Taiz governorate. Mohammed Awadh, the head of the government unit in Mukalla, told Al Jazeera that displaced people of all ages had arrived in the governorate with little more than the clothes on their backs.
The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps, a government body that documents and tracks displacement in Yemen, said in its latest report last week that since early September, 197,906 people, or 29,519 families, had been displaced. This figure was up from about 100,000 people two weeks earlier with most of the displaced coming from Taiz governorate. Mohammed Awadh, the head of the government unit in Mukalla, told Al Jazeera that displaced people of all ages had arrived in the governorate with little more than the clothes on their backs.
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