The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced the displacement of 32 Yemeni families during the third week of October. In its weekly displacement report issued yesterday, the organization stated that it had observed the displacement of 32 Yemeni families, consisting of 192 individuals from October 15 to October 21. The organization said that the majority of the displacement cases were reported in the Marib governorate (18 families), Taiz (8 families), and Al-Hudyadah (3 families). It added that the total number of displaced individuals from January 1 to October 21, 2023, reached 4,767 families, representing 28,602 individuals. Over 4 million people have been displaced in Yemen since the start of the war in 2015.
The Interior Ministry announced that the police in Taiz province arrested a suspect on Sunday in connection with the attempted assassination of Colonel Mohammed Al-Jaefi, a staff member of the 35th Armored Brigade. The ministry's website reported that the police had received a report of an assassination attempt on Colonel Al-Jaifi while he was driving his car in the Al-Ain area in the Al-Mawasit district. He sustained gunshot wounds in the neck and shoulder. The suspect (W.M.T.) has been detained pending further legal proceedings.
A citizen was killed, and two other children were injured today, Monday, due to Houthi shelling. A medical source in Taiz City said that the citizen, Abdul Jawad Al-Sheibani (50 years old), was killed due to shrapnel wounds from a mortar shell that targeted the Al-Sha'b neighborhood in the eastern part of the city. The source added that the child Karam Abdul Razzaq (8 years old) was injured by shrapnel from a Houthi drone attack, which targeted the Al-Rawdah neighborhood, causing minor injuries to another child.
The effects of a tropical storm began in the Arabian Sea on Monday, with varying degrees of rainfall in the provinces of Socotra and Al-Mahra. Local sources in Socotra said the island saw heavy rain accompanied by storms and floods amidst rising wave levels in the sea. Local residents in the Al-Mahra province in eastern Yemen reported the effects of the storm "Tej" which began this morning with moderate rainfall along the coasts of several districts. Meanwhile, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in its climate bulletin on Sunday of the potential repercussions of the cyclone on the Socotra and Al-Mahra.The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) Cyclone 'Tej' transformed into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm (ESCS) on Sunday and is likely to cross between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman) in the early hours of October 25, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday.
The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas group said Monday it had released two female civilian captives in response to Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts. Abu Ubaida, spokesman for Hamas, said, "We decided to release them for humanitarian and poor health grounds." On Monday, Gaza's health ministry said 436 people had been killed in bombardments over the past 24 hours, most in the south of the narrow, densely populated territory, next to which Israeli troops and tanks have massed for a possible ground invasion. The Hamas-Israel conflict began on October 7.
