Yemenis flee across Red Sea as Houthis and Saudi-backed forces escalate war
Today he sits, surrounded by his family, on a tarpaulin spread over a sandy floor inside a vast open-sided warehouse at Markazi camp in Obock, northern Djibouti, packed with Yemeni families who have fled by boat across the narrow Bab al-Mandab Strait. After their sea crossing, Yemeni refugees have made their way by truck and on foot to this camp, jointly administered by the government and the UN."How could I just sit there when my kids are screaming and shaking in terror?" says Ibrahim Issa. "When the sound of the planes start, and the kids hear the planes, they begin shouting and screaming.
- ▪Today he sits, surrounded by his family, on a tarpaulin spread over a sandy floor inside a vast open-sided warehouse at Markazi camp in Obock, northern Djibouti, packed with Yemeni families who have fled by boat across the narrow Bab al-Man
- ▪After their sea crossing, Yemeni refugees have made their way by truck and on foot to this camp, jointly administered by the government and the UN."How could I just sit there when my kids are screaming and shaking in terror?" says Ibrahim I
- ▪"When the sound of the planes start, and the kids hear the planes, they begin shouting and screaming.
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Yemenis flee across Red Sea as Houthis and Saudi-backed forces escalate war<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: Inside a camp for Yemeni refugees in DjiboutiByFrank GardnerSecurity correspondent, Reporting fromMarkazi camp, Obock, DjiboutiPublished1 hour agoIbrahim Issa, 50, is from the Yemeni coastal town of Dhubab, right on the front lines of the war between Yemen's Houthis and the Saudi-backed pro-government forces fighting…
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