Qualla: Battle of Al Hudaydah https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah 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/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Al Hudaydah https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah Battle of Al Hudaydah: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three hundred thousand children lived in and around Al Hudaydah when the battle began on 13 June 2018, and UNICEF's executive director Henrietta Fore said their safety could not be separated from the battle itself. Hudaydah's port handled more than 80 percent of the food and humanitarian aid entering Yemen - a country where the UN had already called the situation the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The assault, codenamed Operation Golden Victory by the Saudi-led coalition, was supposed to cut Houthi supply lines and force peace talks. It became a months-long siege that starved the city's water and electricity, displaced tens of thousands of civilians, and ended, after a UN-brokered ceasefire that was never fully implemented, with pro-government forces withdrawing in 2021 and ceding full control of the city back to the Houthis who had held it to start with.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/sfws-battle-of-al-hudaydah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Al Hudaydah: The Port That Feeds a Country https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Al Hudaydah sits on the western coast of Yemen, on the Tihamah coastal plain overlooking the Red Sea. Its harbor cranes - all four of them - handle the containers of rice, wheat, cooking oil, and medicine that most of Yemen depends on to stay alive. By 2018, three quarters of all...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/sfws-battle-of-al-hudaydah-the-port-that-feeds-a-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Al Hudaydah: Operation Golden Victory https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The United Arab Emirates had proposed a naval attack on Hudaydah in 2016, but the United States had judged it too risky at the time. Over the next two years the UAE trained thousands of Yemeni government soldiers at bases in Eritrea and along the Tihamah, and on 13 June 2018 appr...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/sfws-battle-of-al-hudaydah-operation-golden-victory.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Al Hudaydah: A City Under Siege https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. While the airport fell and the outer neighborhoods were fought over, the city itself suffered. Water supply pipes were damaged by Houthi trench-digging. Electricity became intermittent. On 4 August, a coalition airstrike killed 30 people near the Hudaydah fish market and a nearby...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/sfws-battle-of-al-hudaydah-a-city-under-siege.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Al Hudaydah: Stockholm and After https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. In December 2018, UN special envoy Martin Griffiths convened both sides in Sweden and brokered the Stockholm Agreement, calling for the mutual withdrawal of forces from Hudaydah city and port under UN monitoring. The ceasefire went into effect on 18 December. It was never fully i...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/w/s/battle-of-al-hudaydah-wp/sfws-battle-of-al-hudaydah-stockholm-and-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Al Hudaydah: What the Civilians Knew https://qualla.com/battle-of-al-hudaydah/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The people of Hudaydah knew what was happening to them, even when the world looked elsewhere. Fishermen went out anyway and got blown out of the water. Families packed onto trucks and fled inland when they could. Children were malnourished because the port that fed them was a bat...

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