A United Nations report has revealed that around 28,000 Yemenis have been displaced since the start of the year 2023 due to reasons related to the ongoing conflict in the country. The International Organization for Migration stated in its weekly report that the displacement matrix has recorded the displacement of 4,652 families, comprising 27,912 individuals, who have experienced displacement at least once between January 1 and October 7 of the current year. The highest number of displacement cases was recorded in Taiz. It has been nine years since the conflict began in Yemen. Over 4 million people have been displaced since 2015.
General Staff Chief, Major General Saghier Bin Aziz, discussed on Tuesday with Lieutenant General Patrick Frankcommanding general of United States Army Central, the threats to regional and international maritime security, as well as the ongoing smuggling of weapons, missiles, and drones by Iran to the Houthi group. According to the state-run Saba News Agency, bin Aziz praised the United States' supportive stance toward Yemen during the meeting.
Today, Yemen's Finance Minister Salem Ben Buraik discussed in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh with representatives from the International Monetary Fund the continuation of technical support and capacity building for the Ministry of Finance and its affiliated departments. This came as part of the Ministry of Finance's participation in the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, which began today and will continue for a week in Marrakesh. Bin Buraik reviewed the major challenges that the government has been facing for more than a year due to the Houthi targeting of strategic oil installations, which led to the cessation of the export of crude oil, costing the Yemeni government massive losses. He reiterated the urgent need for more support to the Yemeni government to confront and overcome various challenges.
Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants.Israel was now stepping up its offensive. It expanded the mobilization of reservists to 360,000 on Tuesday, according to the country's media. After days of fighting, Israel's military said Tuesday morning that it had regained effective control over areas Hamas attacked in its south, and of the Gaza border. At least 1800 people from both sides have been killed.
