Fears Mount For A Battered Yemen As Assault On Port City Gathers Steam
So far, the fighting has stayed in Hodeidah's outskirts. But the relative calm isn't likely to last — and aid groups are desperately calling for its port to stay open for a country already in crisis.
As Arab airstrikes pummel areas around Hodeidah, backing a Yemeni government push to dislodge Houthi rebels from the country's major Red Sea port, international observers are struggling to respond to the bloodshed — which threatens to exacerbate a desperate situation already deemed the "world's worst humanitarian crisis."
The United of the organization's staff from the city earlier this week. Though not all: Lise Grande, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator, that dozens of workers are still "on the ground" delivering supplies.
