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Nearly 147,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since the start of September amid worsening security conditions and an escalation in fighting, a Yemeni government body said on Sunday.
The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps documented the displacement of 21,583 families, comprising 146,943 people, between Sept. 1 and 18, according to the report.
Taiz receives the largest number of displaced people
Displacement was recorded in eight provinces: Taiz and Lahj in the southwest; Aden, Abyan and Shabwa in the south; Al-Hudaydah in the west; and Hadhramout and Al Mahrah in the east.
Taiz received the largest number of displaced people, with 11,534 families, or 80,792 individuals, distributed across 15 districts. Lahj ranked second, receiving 5,472 families comprising 38,304 people across nine districts.
In Aden, 1,622 families, comprising 7,162 people, were recorded as arriving. Most were hosted by local families in several districts.
The government body said 1,471 families, comprising 10,297 people, moved to the districts of Hays and Al Khawkhah in Al-Hudaydah. A further 1,278 families, or 8,946 people, arrived in Abyan.
It also recorded 110 displaced families in Hadhramout, 70 in Al Mahrah and 26 in Shabwa.
Fighting intensifies across several fronts
The displacement has increased amid a broad military escalation along Yemen’s western coast and in parts of Taiz province, where the Houthis have advanced and seized positions previously held by government forces.
Fighting has resumed on several fronts in Taiz, Marib and Al Jawf in the north, as well as Al Bayda in central Yemen. The escalation, which began in early July, is described as the most serious since a UN-brokered truce in April 2022.
Clashes intensified in September, with the Houthis taking control of several strategic positions in Al-Hudaydah and Taiz provinces, including the strategic city of Mokha, and extending their reach toward Mayun Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
The Executive Unit called on international and local organizations to provide “urgent, life-saving assistance” to displaced people, warning that delays could worsen the crisis and increase pressure on host communities.
Yemen has been at war since the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and several provinces in September 2014. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
