New Yemen fighting displaces 290,000, says UN, with pregnant women at risk

A new outbreak in fighting in Yemen has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes.

Displaced Yemenis wait in the shade to receive medical treatment provided by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at the Al-Kod Al-Othmani displacement camp in Sheikh Othman district, Aden, Yemen, Thursday, October 8, 2026 [Abdulnasser Alseddik/AP Photo]

At least 290,000 have been displaced in Yemen since the country’s war re-erupted in August, according to the United Nations’ humanitarian office (OCHA), with a dire threat to pregnant women.

Fighting between forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally-recognised government and Houthi rebels has intensified, particularly in Taiz governorate and coastal areas, with thousands reported killed.

list 1 of 3 Fighting rages near Yemen’s Taiz as UN urges humanitarian access

list 2 of 3 Houthi forces claim six attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities

list 3 of 3 Saudi Arabia reports interception of Houthi drone targeting Mecca

An OCHA report published Friday warned that 65,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Yemen face a rapidly deteriorating situation, with services disrupted and food and fuel prices rapidly rising. Among those recently displaced are 6,100 pregnant women, including 600 due to give birth within two weeks.

The UN has sent mobile teams and midwives to displacement sites, and aid groups have been able to deliver food, hygiene supplies and emergency cash to about 249,000 people – about three in four among the displaced.

The rise in displacement comes as the war has escalated on several fronts and reached across the border into Saudi Arabia, where on Saturday the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed a “hostile” drone over the Riyadh region.

“The relevant authorities are continuing to inspect the site,” coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki wrote in a post on X, but said no casualties had been reported. It is the second interception over the Riyadh region in as many days.

On Friday, Saudi Arabia said drones had been downed near Mecca , Medina and Riyadh, along with a Houthi missile fired towards the kingdom’s south.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree denied that the group had launched drones towards Saudi territory, calling the claims “egregious lies”.

The group has repeatedly denied aiming at Islam’s two holiest cities, while claiming responsibility for attacks on the Saudi capital, airports and oil infrastructure.

The Houthis’ attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 10 killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 300, the most lethal attack on Saudi soil in more than a decade.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud sign Expo 2030 Riyadh Participation Contract as they meet during the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 30, 2026 [Megan Varner/Reuters]

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud attended a G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, where he discussed the situation in Yemen with United States, Russian and European counterparts, according to the Saudi state news agency.

Prince Faisal and Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand also issued a joint condemnation of the Houthi attacks on the kingdom on the sidelines of the meeting.

Yemen’s internationally recognised government announced on Friday that the Houthis had fired at least three ballistic missiles at Maashiq presidential palace, the seat of government in Aden, the interim capital of Yemen.

They also fired missiles at Aden International airport, which had reopened on Thursday after a brief closure for repairs following an earlier Houthi attack.

Both the palace and the airport have been repeat targets for Houthi drone and missile attacks in recent weeks.

The cabinet of Yemen’s internationally recognised government denounced the attacks, calling the airport strike “a direct attack on the interest of citizens” and accusing the group of seeking to disrupt “legitimate institutions” by striking the palace.

Spokesman for Yemen’s government forces, Majed Abdullah al-Nuzaili, said on Friday they “neutralised” about 336 Houthi fighters and commanders and destroyed or damaged 112 vehicles, weapons and other equipment “in recent hours”.

Warplanes, drones, artillery and rocket launchers targeted the group’s command centres, troop concentrations and supply routes on fronts including Taiz, Marib, al-Jawf and al-Bayda, he said.

A mounting civilian toll

One civilian was killed and five injured, including a child, in Houthi attacks across Taiz governorate, according to the government-aligned Saba news agency. The agency reported that a woman was shot dead, while the injuries came from shelling and gunfire.

The UN has verified 270 civilian casualties since August, including 68 killed, half of whom are children.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said its field team in Taiz province has recorded thousands of Houthi violations between September 1 and October 29, with at least 189 civilians killed, including 38 children and 27 women.

The group said it recorded 23 field executions and more than 300 abductions or enforced disappearances.

Roads have also been closed by the fighting, blocking food, medicine, fuel and water to two million people in the vicinity.

Taiz city has been bitterly contested throughout Yemen’s civil war. After seizing ground to its south this month, including al-Turbah, the Houthis have tightened their grip around Taiz , leading to deteriorating humanitarian conditions within the city.

Yemen’s war broke out in September 2014, when Houthi forces captured the capital Sanaa, forcing the government south. The war intensified when a Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened to support government-aligned forces in March 2015.

Following several truces between the two sides, fighting re-erupted after Yemeni government forces targeted Sanaa International airport, preventing a plane carrying a Houthi delegation from landing. Since then, the Houthis have launched a sweeping offensive on Yemen’s coast, giving them control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Yemen’s government has announced the launch of an offensive to retake territories from the Houthis .

也门新一轮冲突爆发，迫使数万人流离失所。

2026年10月8日，星期四，在也门亚丁谢赫奥斯曼区的Al-Kod Al-Othmani流离失所者营地，流离失所的也门人在树荫下等待接受无国界医生组织提供的医疗服务。[Abdulnasser Alseddik/AP Photo]

据联合国人道主义事务协调厅（OCHA）称，自也门8月份战争再次爆发以来，至少有29万人流离失所，孕妇面临严重威胁。

也门国际公认政府的武装力量与胡塞武装之间的战斗愈演愈烈，尤其是在塔伊兹省和沿海地区，据报道已有数千人丧生。

列表 1/3：也门塔伊兹附近战火持续，联合国敦促允许人道主义援助进入

胡塞武装声称对沙特机场和石油设施发动了六次袭击（共三份清单中的第二份）。

沙特阿拉伯报告拦截胡塞武装无人机，目标是麦加（共3条，此为第3条）

联合国人道事务协调厅（OCHA）周五发布的一份报告警告称，也门境内6.5万名难民和寻求庇护者正面临迅速恶化的处境，公共服务中断，食品和燃料价格飞涨。近期流离失所者中包括6100名孕妇，其中600名将在两周内分娩。

联合国已向流离失所者营地派遣流动小组和助产士，援助组织已向约 24.9 万人（约占流离失所者总数的四分之三）提供了食物、卫生用品和紧急现金。

随着战争在多条战线上升级并蔓延至沙特阿拉伯，流离失所者人数也随之增加。周六，沙特领导的联军称，他们在利雅得地区拦截并摧毁了一架“敌对”无人机。

联军发言人图尔基·马尔基在X网站上发帖称，“有关部门正在继续检查现场”，但表示尚未收到人员伤亡报告。这是两天内利雅得地区发生的第二起拦截事件。

周五，沙特阿拉伯表示，在麦加、麦地那和利雅得附近击落了无人机，同时胡塞武装向沙特南部发射了一枚导弹。

胡塞武装发言人叶海亚·萨里否认该组织曾向沙特领土发射无人机，称这些说法是“弥天大谎”。

该组织一再否认以伊斯兰教的两座圣城为目标，同时声称对沙特首都、机场和石油基础设施的袭击负责。

10月10日，胡塞武装袭击了利雅得的哈立德国王国际机场，造成至少13人死亡，300多人受伤，这是十多年来沙特本土发生的最致命的袭击事件。

2026年10月30日，美国国务卿马可·卢比奥和沙特阿拉伯外交大臣费萨尔·本·法尔汉·阿勒沙特在美国佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的二十国集团外长会议期间签署了2030年利雅得世博会参展合同。[梅根·瓦纳/路透社]

据沙特国家通讯社报道，沙特外交大臣费萨尔·本·法尔汉·阿勒沙特亲王周六出席了在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的二十国集团外长会议，并在会上与美国、俄罗斯和欧洲的同行讨论了也门局势。

在会议间隙，费萨尔亲王和加拿大外交部长阿妮塔·阿南德也联合发表声明，谴责胡塞武装对沙特王国的袭击。

也门国际公认的政府周五宣布，胡塞武装向也门临时首都亚丁的政府所在地马希克总统府发射了至少三枚弹道导弹。

他们还向亚丁国际机场发射了导弹。此前，该机场因胡塞武装的袭击而短暂关闭进行维修，并于周四重新开放。

最近几周，皇宫和机场都多次成为胡塞武装无人机和导弹袭击的目标。

也门国际公认的政府内阁谴责了这些袭击，称机场袭击是“对公民利益的直接攻击”，并指责该组织企图通过袭击王宫来扰乱“合法机构”。

也门政府军发言人马吉德·阿卜杜拉·努扎伊利周五表示，他们在“最近几个小时”内“消灭”了约 336 名胡塞武装人员和指挥官，并摧毁或损坏了 112 辆汽车、武器和其他装备。

他说，战机、无人机、火炮和火箭发射器以该组织在塔伊兹、马里卜、焦夫和贝达等前线的指挥中心、部队集结地和补给线为目标。

不断攀升的平民伤亡

据与政府关系密切的萨巴通讯社报道，胡塞武装在塔伊兹省发动袭击，造成一名平民死亡，五人受伤，其中包括一名儿童。该通讯社报道称，一名妇女被枪杀，伤者则由炮击和枪击造成。

联合国已核实自8月以来有270名平民伤亡，其中68人死亡，一半是儿童。

也门人权与自由网络表示，其在塔伊兹省的实地小组记录了9月1日至10月29日期间胡塞武装的数千起侵犯人权行为，至少有189名平民丧生，其中包括38名儿童和27名妇女。

该组织称，他们记录了 23 起现场处决和 300 多起绑架或强迫失踪事件。

战火还导致道路封闭，附近两百万人无法获得食物、药品、燃料和水。

在也门内战期间，塔伊兹市一直是双方激烈争夺的焦点。本月，胡塞武装夺取了包括图尔巴在内的南部地区后，进一步加强了对塔伊兹的控制，导致该市人道主义状况日益恶化。

也门战争于2014年9月爆发，当时胡塞武装占领了首都萨那，迫使政府军南下。2015年3月，沙特阿拉伯领导的阿拉伯联军介入，支持政府军，战争局势进一步升级。

在双方达成数次停火协议后，也门政府军袭击萨那国际机场，阻止一架载有胡塞武装代表团的飞机降落，导致冲突再次爆发。此后，胡塞武装对也门沿海地区发动大规模攻势，控制了曼德海峡。也门政府已宣布发起反攻，从胡塞武装手中夺回失地。