Qualla: Al Hudaydah offensive https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Al Hudaydah offensive https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive Al Hudaydah offensive: Introduction https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 13 June 2018, approximately two thousand Emirati troops landed on the coast of Yemen and began the assault on Hudaydah. They had departed from a UAE naval base in Eritrea, crossed the Red Sea, and arrived intent on capturing a city of six hundred thousand people from the Houthi forces that had held it since 2014. A CARE aid worker inside Hudaydah reported hearing at least thirty airstrikes during the first day of fighting. The city's population had no safe direction to run in. Hudaydah was not a military target in any ordinary sense. It was the port through which eighty percent of Yemen's imported food and most of its medicine reached a country already experiencing what the United Nations called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Al Hudaydah offensive: Months of Prelude https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The coast had been burning for six months before the assault on the city itself. In December 2017, Saudi-led coalition forces - the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and a changing roster of Yemeni Government allies including the Southern Movement and the Tihama Resistance - be...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-months-of-prelude.mp3 0:06 2 full Al Hudaydah offensive: Civilians in the Way https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The civilians of the coast were not spared. Four civilians were killed and eleven wounded on 7 February 2018 when a Houthi rocket landed in Hays. Fourteen civilians from a single family died on 26 December 2017 when a coalition bomb hit a farm in Houthi-controlled Hodeidah. Five ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-civilians-in-the-way.mp3 0:06 3 full Al Hudaydah offensive: The Battle at the Port https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The June 13 assault on the city itself marked the campaign's climax. Coalition forces pushed from the south, supported by UAE Apache helicopters, airstrikes, and naval bombardment. The Houthis had dug in. The Houthi commander in Hays, Omar al-Ansi, had been executed earlier by hi...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-the-battle-at-the-port.mp3 0:06 4 full Al Hudaydah offensive: The People Who Live There https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Hudaydah has a population estimated at 600,000 to 700,000, most of them Yemeni families whose connection to the Houthi political movement varies widely. They included fishermen whose boats worked the Red Sea coast; laborers at the port; merchants and market workers; farmers in th...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-the-people-who-live-there.mp3 0:06 5 full Al Hudaydah offensive: Aftermath and Withdrawal https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Saleh Ali al-Sammad, chairman of the Houthi Supreme Political Council - the highest-ranking Houthi political official - was killed on 19 April 2018 in a coalition air raid in the al-Buraihi area of Hudaydah province. On 13 November 2021, Saudi-led coalition forces quietly left th...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/al-hudaydah-offensive-wp/sfws-al-hudaydah-offensive-aftermath-and-withdrawal.mp3 0:06 6 full Al Hudaydah offensive: The Port That Keeps Being Bombed https://qualla.com/al-hudaydah-offensive/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Hudaydah has not known peace since. Israeli airstrikes in 2024 and 2025 struck the port and its fuel infrastructure repeatedly. The United States and United Kingdom have bombed Houthi targets in the city during the Red Sea crisis. Each time, a civilian population that had nothing...

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