The water crisis in Taiz is worsening day after day, amid a complete collapse of the infrastructure for basic services, most notably the provision of potable water.
This has exacerbated the suffering of residents and forced them to queue for a drop of water.
According to local sources, the price of a tank of water has reached nearly 100,000 Yemeni riyals, one of the highest prices the city has ever seen.
This exorbitant increase comes at a time when the city is experiencing a severe shortage of water resources and continuous service interruptions for weeks.
Videos circulated by activists on social media documented long lines of citizens—men, women, and children—queuing for hours in front of water tanks or mobile points of sale, a scene that reveals the scale of the humanitarian disaster afflicting the people of Taiz.
Many residents are forced to purchase water at exorbitant prices beyond their means, amid deteriorating economic conditions and the absence of any effective intervention to contain or mitigate the crisis.
Citizens in Taiz accused the occupying government of completely neglecting its responsibilities, leaving the city to face its fate without any emergency plan or urgent intervention.
A number of residents of the city confirmed that the occupying government has not offered any tangible solutions despite the worsening crisis.
They pointed out that this neglect reflects the reality of rampant corruption within government institutions and its complete inability to meet the most basic rights of citizens.
In addition, yesterday, unknown gunmen assassinated a senior military mercenary in one of the Saudi-backed militias while he was passing through the Al-Abr road, amid escalating disputes between the leaders of the military militias loyal to the Saudi-Emirati coalition.
Informed sources reported that the prominent Salafist mercenary leader close to Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Abdullah Shathan, was killed in an armed ambush targeting him while crossing the Al-Abr international road in Hadhramaut Governorate on his way to the Al-Wadiah crossing to enter Saudi Arabia.
They explained that the ambush occurred near a camp belonging to a military faction, and that the gunmen sprayed his car with a hail of bullets, killing Shathan instantly and his companion, Mohammed Al-Yafei, while wounding his son.
