A rapid Houthi military offensive along Yemen's western coast has displaced more than 130,000 people across seven governorates, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday, with the United Nations warning the figure could rise to over 230,000 in the coming months as fighting intensifies. The humanitarian toll has mounted sharply: just three days before, the IOM had recorded 118,000 displaced people, meaning more than 11,000 additional civilians were uprooted in a matter of days. The port of Mocha, a strategically significant Red Sea city, has fallen to Houthi forces, and aid officials warn that Taiz — Yemen's third-largest city, located in the southwest — could be the group's next target. Taiz Governorate already hosts the largest concentration of displaced people, with nearly 73,500 recorded there. More than 3,100 people have made the dangerous crossing of the Red Sea to Djibouti.

The offensive has drawn a rare and forceful public response from Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 90, who denounced the Houthis as a