{"id":3446,"date":"2026-10-28T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:04:00","slug":"houthis-call-for-immediate-evacuation-of-aden-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"Houthis call for immediate evacuation of Aden airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Yemen\u2019s Houthis on Wednesday called \u200bon people to evacuate immediately from \u200cthe international airport in Aden, where the internationally recognised, Saudi-backed \u200bgovernment is based.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Houthi spokesperson \u200bYahya Saree said in his \u2060post on X that \u200bthe evacuation was due to \u200bwhat he said was the presence there of a Saudi military \u200bcargo aircraft carrying weapons. \u200bThere was no immediate comment from Saudi \u200cauthorities.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060Houthi militia, which controls the capital Sanaa in the north, has repeatedly struck \u200bthe airport, \u200ba \u2060humanitarian lifeline and gateway for southern Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Explosions \u200bwere heard in Aden \u200bbefore \u2060the Houthi warning, residents in the city told <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition supporting the government in Yemen has intensified in recent weeks as the Houthis pushed last month \u200btowards the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic shipping chokepoint which lies \u200bopposite the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict \u200chas \u2060become a new volatile front in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Government forces staged an advance to retake territory seized by the Houthis on the Red Sea coast, potentially loosening the group\u2019s grip on the \u200bstrait, and the \u200bcoalition intensified its \u2060strikes on Houthi targets in response to their escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed fighting has shattered \u200ba 2022 UN-brokered truce which had largely halted \u200battacks in \u2060the impoverished country mired in conflict since 2014, when the Houthis pushed the government south.<\/p>\n<p>Aid agencies have warned of rapidly deteriorating conditions as a \u2060result. \u200bYemen has already been suffering from one \u200bof the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Houthis on Wednesday called \u200bon people to evacuate immediately from \u200cthe international airport in Aden, where the internationally recognised, Saudi-backed \u200bgovernment is based. Houthi spokesperson \u200bYahya Saree said in his \u2060post on X that \u200bthe evacuation was due to \u200bwhat he said was the presence there of a Saudi military \u200bcargo aircraft carrying weapons. \u200bThere was no immediate comment from Saudi \u200cauthorities. The \u2060Houthi militia, which controls the capital Sanaa in the north, has repeatedly struck \u200bthe airport, \u200ba \u2060humanitarian lifeline and gateway for southern Yemen. Explosions \u200bwere heard&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}