News Center — The new wave of displacement in western Yemen reflects part of the humanitarian cost of the escalation, as families find themselves forced to leave their homes and previous displacement camps in search of safer shelter, while hosting areas suffer from limited services and aid.

Fifty‑seven families, comprising about 400 people, have been displaced from the Hays district and its surroundings in Al‑Hudaydah, western Yemen, following repeated Houthi shelling that targeted populated areas. The Executive Unit for the Management of Displacement Camps confirmed yesterday, Thursday, September 3, that families were forced to leave a number of villages in the districts of Hays, Al‑Jarahi, and Jabal Ras, due to the state of fear and panic caused by the ongoing shelling, heading urgently toward alternative sites including Awais, Al‑Qash, Mahwa Al‑Abd, Al‑Ha'it, Mahal Al‑Rabi', Al‑Nazali, and Al‑Huraybah in search of safe shelter.

The wave of forced displacement has left behind extremely harsh humanitarian and living conditions, as families were forced to leave most of their belongings and sources of livelihood, including homes, shelter materials, money, and livestock, amid significant limitations in their ability to secure basic needs.

The Executive Unit had issued an urgent appeal for immediate humanitarian intervention to provide shelter materials, safe housing, food and cash assistance, drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services, and essential non‑food items.

The unit called on humanitarian actors to respond swiftly and conduct a comprehensive protection needs assessment, giving priority to children, women, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and families with sick members, and referring cases with special needs to health care and psychosocial support services, while including newly displaced families in aid programs and enhancing continuous monitoring of displacement movements in anticipation of additional waves if the escalation and shelling continue.

It noted that the military escalation launched by the Houthis on the western fronts of Taiz also pushed dozens of families to flee from conflict zones in the Maqbanah district and arrive in safer areas in the Al‑Ma'afir district, amid fears of the fighting expanding.

Local sources reported that residents of villages in Maqbanah and Al‑Kadha, along with displacement camps, have left their homes for safer locations due to the shelling targeting their areas, noting that groups of families were seen boarding vehicles, while others left on foot accompanied by their livestock—a scene reflecting the scale of fear caused by the escalating shelling.

They confirmed that the Houthis have intensified artillery shelling on residential villages in the areas of Jabal Habashi, Al‑Dhubab, Al‑Sayahi, and Hadhran, located west of Taiz and in its western countryside.