Trenches, sand bags and land mines are in place to defend Marib City, though it is as yet unclear if the Houthis will launch a direct assault there or move to take the nearby oil and gas facilities and besiege the city instead.Įither way, with each Houthi military advance, more internal refugees are forced to move. Should Marib governorate fall on what is now the war's key battleground, it would deal a blow to the pro-government military coalition led by Saudi Arabia that has been fighting the Houthis since 2014, and to United Nations-led peace efforts.

'Demand is high and the hospital has poor resources to treat patients,' he said. 'Humanitarian needs in Marib city far outstrip current humanitarian capacity on the ground,' said the group of agencies, including Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam and Save the Children.Ībdelhamid Ali Mothana, a doctor at a nearby hospital, warned of winter outbreaks of flu and COVID-19, fuelled by the camps' unsanitary conditions, and urged aid organisations and other countries to offer the displaced more support. Some 80% are women and children, a group of aid agencies said this week, forced towards the city as the Iran-aligned Houthi forces press for full control of one of the country's main energy-producing regions. and there's no one to borrow from anymore.'Īl-Harmali, who has been in the al-Suwaida camp east of the city since May last year, is among the almost one million people estimated to have been displaced from elsewhere in Yemen who now form part of Marib's three million population. 'I don't have the money for the treatment (for my spine).

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