Yemen: Houthis Depriving Taizz Civilians of Food, Medicine

Country: Yemen Source: Human Rights Watch Siege May Amount to War Crime of Using Starvation as a Method of Warfare (Beirut) – A long-running humanitarian crisis in Taizz, Yemen’s third-largest city, has drastically worsened since October 2026, when the Houthi armed group forces fully encircled the city and blocked and attacked the remaining major supply route, Human Rights Watch said today. Since then, there have been severe shortages of fuel, food, water, medicine, cooking gas, and access by hu