After a drone strike sent shrapnel flying into his wife’s chest, ⁠killing ⁠her, Muhammad Aiyash and his three children fled ⁠with no belongings to a new makeshift camp for the displaced in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. Panic ​has spread as Yemen’s Houthis trounced Saudi-backed government forces in a lightning offensive along the country’s Red Sea coast that has enabled the Iran-aligned militants to seize another part ‌of the country and tighten their grip ‌over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes for goods and commodities, including oil. “By God, we do not possess even a single ⁠grain of flour. We ⁠have no mattresses and no clothes,” said Aiyash, who is in his 60s and left his ​home behind in the ancient port city of Mocha in a desperate search for shelter in Yemen’s latest crisis. The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday that more than 100,000 people had been internally displaced by the renewed conflict in Yemen, and that thousands more have fled by sea to Djibouti.

Full report : 125,000 people flee Yemen fighting as Houthis take fire.