由伊朗支持的胡塞武装正向也门第三大城市塔伊兹推进。在也门持续多年的血腥内战期间，这座城市一直遭到围困。
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels are advancing on the Yemeni city of Taiz, the country’s third-largest metropolis that had endured a yearslong siege during the nation’s bloody civil war.
据官方消息，周二，胡塞武装包围了该城，其武装分子在多个战线上与沙特支持的联军发生交火。
The terror group encircled the city on Tuesday, with its fighters clashing with the Saudi-back coalition troops on multiple fronts, officials said.
目前，胡塞武装已切断了来自政府控制区通往塔伊兹的大部分补给线，导致这座城市超过100万居民忧心忡忡——他们手中的食物与能源储备正日益减少。
The Houthis have already managed to cut off most supply routes from government-held areas around the city, stoking fears among Taiz’s more than 1 million residents dealing with dwindling food and energy stocks.
当地居民沙伊夫·加比里对美联社表示：“如果围困持续下去，这些储备物资很快就会用光。”
“If the siege continues, then these stocks will run out,” local Shaif al-Gabiri told the Associated Press.
如今，所有通往城外的主干道均已封闭，亲政府武装正试图打破胡塞武装在塔伊兹西南部的据点。
The main roads out of the city are now closed as pro-government forces attempt to break the rebel’s stronghold just southwest of Taiz.
居民们称，自家住所附近时常出现炮击与爆炸。一名7岁男童据称被弹片击中，目前正在住院治疗。
Residents have reported shelling and blasts near their homes, with one 7-year-old boy hospitalized after he was reportedly hit by shrapnel.
塔伊兹省卫生部门官员法赫德·纳扎里警告称，由于医院面临柴油短缺，加上战火阻断了医疗物资的运输渠道，一场“巨大的灾难”即将发生。
Dr. Fahd Nazary, of the Taiz provincial health office, warned of a “huge catastrophe” to come as hospitals face a diesel shortage, with the fighting also cutting off access to medical supplies.
当前局势让人回想起2014年至2022年的也门内战时期——当时塔伊兹正是抵御胡塞武装进攻的前线阵地。
The situation harkens back to Yemen’s civil war period from 2014 to 2022, where the city stood in the frontlines against the Houthi rebel assault.
塔伊兹是通往也门南部的战略要道，而南部地区目前由胡塞武装控制。不过面对此次新一轮攻势，塔伊兹方面抵御叛军的能力似乎已大不如前。
Taiz lies as a strategic gateway to the nation’s southern half, controlled by the Houthis, but its ability to repel the rebel forces appears to have waned in the face of the new assault.
据《每日电讯报》援引当地消息称，截至周二晚间，胡塞武装已占领塔伊兹的中央监狱，并逼近了城市的东门与西门。
By Tuesday night, the rebels seized Taiz’s central prison and reached the city’s eastern and western gates, local sources told The Telegraph.
目前，南门一带以及贾巴尔·阿鲁斯山周边仍在激烈交火，后者是这座城市最重要的防御据点之一。
Heavy fighting still persists at the southern gate and around the Jabal al-Aroos Mountain, one of the city’s most important defensive positions.
《每日电讯报》还报道称，据称部分沙特支持的联军指挥官与政界人士已逃离该城，前往亚丁与马里卜避难，他们似乎已认定塔伊兹已失守。
Some of the commanders and politicians in the Saudi-backed coalition have allegedly slipped out of town and sought refuge in Aden and Marib, accepting that the city has been lost, The Telegraph reported.
胡塞官员认为该城市很快就会落入他们手中，宣称他们将监督恢复正常，并誓言一旦掌权就重新开放道路并结束燃料短缺。
Houthi officials, believing the city will soon fall to their forces, claimed they would oversee normalization and vowed to reopen roads and end the fuel shortage once they’re in charge.
也门沙特支持的政府副外长穆斯塔法·诺曼斥责胡塞武装傲慢，并预测对泰兹的围困将会失败。
Mustafa Noman, the deputy foreign minister of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, slammed the Houthis as arrogant and predicted that the siege on Taiz would fail.
“泰兹今天的围困迟早会被打破，并将成为也门历史上的一个转折点，”他说。
“The siege of Taiz today will break sooner or later, and it will form a turning point in Yemen’s history,” he said.
如果该城市落入胡塞武装之手，这将标志着胡塞武装在全国范围内闪电式进攻中的又一次胜利，其行动已经威胁到全球石油供应以及也门政府在沙特阿拉伯的支持者。
Should the city fall, it would mark yet another victory for the Houthis amid their lightning offensive around the country that has come to threaten global oil supplies and the Yemeni government’s backers in Saudi Arabia.