国际英语资讯:Feature: Displaced Yemenis to celebrate Eid al-Adha amid suffering, hunger_时事

国际英语资讯:Feature: Displaced Yemenis to celebrate Eid al-Adha amid suffering, hunger

This Eid al-Adha means nothing for displaced Yemenis who are living in destitution, he said, adding that "stopping this ugly war and bloodshed will be our real festival. Shelling and fighting destroyed everything nice in our country."

In other Yemeni provinces including the Red Sea coast city of Hodeidah, fighting still takes place between government forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Shiite Houthi rebels even during Eid al-Adha holiday.

Some of the families in Hodeidah urged the two-warring sides to hold cease-fire to give citizens a chance to celebrate Eid al-Adha along with their children without fear and random shelling, but no response was made.

"The warring sides don't care about our suffering and only look for gains and seizing control over our areas," Fuad Saleh, an internally displaced person who arrived Monday in Aden.

"Muslim occasions mean nothing for the war leaders who came from other provinces and forced us to flee our houses and properties during Eid holiday," Fuad said.

"Most of the army commanders and the Houthi leaders are not from Hodeidah and their families are at safe places and just came to destroy our areas," he said angrily.

He added that "leaving our houses was something very painful but those military leaders didn't experience it and know nothing what displacement is."

On June 13, the Arab coalition, backing internationally-recognized government of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, declared a major assault to recapture Hodeidah and the Yemeni western Red Sea coast from the Houthis.