More than 800,000 people have been cut off from aid since the Houthis encircled Taiz city in early October.
A mounting humanitarian disaster is gripping Yemen’s Taiz after nearly three weeks of a Houthi siege that has prevented supplies from entering the city, the United Nations has warned.
The Iran-backed Houthis have encircled Taiz since early October, cutting off the road that links it to Aden, which serves as the interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government.
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Little fuel, food or other supplies have reached the city since.
“It’s 20 days and counting since Taiz has been cut off,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for…
