United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council that "Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the UN-brokered truce of April 2022," a warning delivered as fresh strikes hit the country's Red Sea coast and interior. [1]
On August 10, a Houthi barrage struck the port city of al-Makha, killing at least seven people and wounding 30, and causing extensive damage around the port area, according to Al Jazeera. [1]
A day later, on August 11, a drone strike in the south-central province of Shabwa killed two Yemeni government soldiers and wounded seven others. Ballistic missiles also hit residential areas in central Marib, where no casualties were reported. [1]
Grundberg warned that the escalation risks "jeopardising the gains of the 2022 truce" and could draw "the country into a broader regional confrontation, with devastating consequences for its people." [1]
The April 2022 truce, though formally lapsed, has broadly held and cut frontline fighting for more than three years. A return to large-scale war would put that reprieve, and the civilians who have lived under it, at direct risk.
One detail that circulated after the al-Makha strike, a split of the seven dead into four military and three civilian, could not be confirmed against the fetched primary source and is not asserted here.
