Nearly 53,000 Displaced Yemenis Affected by Rains and Floods During Five Months of 2024
The United Nations said that nearly 53,000 displaced people in Yemen have been affected by heavy rains and severe flooding in the first five months of 2024. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a recent report that more than 7,555 displaced families, consisting of more than 52,800 people, were affected by the heavy rains and resulting torrential floods in Yemen from January to May 2024. The organization called for mobilizing the required financial resources to address these risks. It warned that a nationwide response would not be implemented if resources were not mobilized. The organization added that additional funding is crucial to effectively mitigating the effects of the floods. Over 4.5 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the war in 2015.
U.S. officials reportedly ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the aircraft carrier leading America's response to the Houthi attacks, to return home. The ship's captain targeted late Friday saw "explosions in the vicinity of the vessel," the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. "The crew are reported safe and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call," the UKMTO said, without elaborating on whether the ship sustained any damage. The Houthis have launched more than 60 attacks targeting specific vessels and fired off other missiles and drones that have killed a total of four sailors. They have maintained that their attacks target ships linked to Israel, the United States and Britain.
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The Houthi group in Yemen said the U.S. and the U.K. conducted four airstrikes on Saturday, targeting locations in Al Hudaydah province. "American-British aggression (forces) carried out four airstrikes on Al Luhayyah district in Al Hudaydah," the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV channel reported. Since the beginning of 2024, US-led coalition forces have conducted airstrikes in Yemen, claiming to be targeting Houthi locations in response to the group's attacks in the Red Sea. The Houthis have repeatedly retaliated in response to the U.S. and its allies' attacks.
At least 42 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on the Shati refugee camp and the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza, the head of Gaza's Government Media Office told Al Jazeera.The WHO says the health system in Gaza is near collapse as casualties from an Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi "safe zone" pour into Al-Aqsa Hospital. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks push deeper into western Rafah as warplanes and artillery pound the city where a Hamas-planted improvised explosive device destroyed an armored vehicle. At least 37,551 people have been killed and 85,911 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7.
