
亚丁/迪拜,10月28日——也门政府官员表示,胡塞武装周三袭击了亚丁机场。此前,这个与伊朗结盟的组织警告人们撤离该设施,原因是这个贫困国家的战斗升级,而该国正卷入更广泛的中东冲突。
ADEN/DUBAI, Oct 28 - Yemen's Houthis attacked Aden airport on Wednesday, government officials said, after the Iran-aligned group warned people to evacuate the facility as fighting escalated in the impoverished country caught in the wider Middle East conflict.
这座南部港口城市是国际承认、沙特支持的政府所在地。当地居民说,他们听到机场附近发生爆炸。该机场是人道主义生命线,也是通往也门南部的主要门户。
Residents in the southern port city, where the internationally recognised, Saudi-backed government is based, said they heard an explosion near the airport, a humanitarian lifeline and the main gateway to southern Yemen.
交通部两名官员告诉路透社,袭击发生后空中交通中断。一名援助消息人士说,一些联合国工作人员在袭击前不久离开了机场,没有人受伤。
Air traffic was halted after the strike, two transport ministry officials told Reuters. An aid source said some UN staff left the airport shortly before the attack and no one was hurt.
胡塞武装发言人叶海亚·萨里在X平台上发帖称,发出撤离警告是因为他所说的沙特军用货运飞机正在运送武器。沙特当局没有立即置评。
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a post on X that the evacuation warning was prompted by what he said was the presence of a Saudi military cargo aircraft delivering weapons. There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities.
胡塞武装控制着首都萨那和也门西北部大部分地区,过去曾多次袭击亚丁机场。居民说,在警告发出前,城市其他地方也听到了爆炸声。
The Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and most of northwestern Yemen, have repeatedly targeted Aden airport in the past. Residents said explosions had also been heard elsewhere in the city before the warning was issued.
国际移民组织表示,在有关袭击的报道传出后,该组织途经亚丁的工作人员安全无恙,均已确认下落。战斗升级此次袭击发生之际,胡塞武装与支持也门政府的沙特领导的联军之间的战斗近几周来不断加剧,在美国和以色列对伊朗的战争中开辟了一条动荡的新战线。
The International Organization for Migration said that its personnel travelling through Aden were safe and accounted for after reports of an attack. FIGHTING ESCALATES The attack comes as fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government has intensified in recent weeks, opening a volatile new front in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran.
上个月,胡塞武装部队向曼德海峡推进。曼德海峡是世界上最具战略意义的航运路线之一,与霍尔木兹海峡隔阿拉伯半岛相望。
Last month, Houthi forces advanced towards the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's most strategically important shipping routes, which lies opposite the Strait of Hormuz across the Arabian Peninsula.
此后,政府军推进以夺回红海沿岸的领土,此举可能削弱胡塞武装对这一咽喉要道的控制;与此同时,联军加大了对胡塞武装阵地的打击,以回应该组织对沙特不断升级的袭击。
Government forces have since pushed to retake territory on the Red Sea coast in a move that could loosen the Houthis' grip on the chokepoint, while the coalition has stepped up strikes against Houthi positions in response to the group's escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia.
周二,医疗慈善机构无国界医生组织表示,几天前,其一架飞机正准备从亚丁机场起飞时,一枚导弹击中了附近区域,人道主义工作人员被告知寻找掩体躲避。
On Tuesday, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that one of its aircraft was about to take off from Aden airport a few days ago when humanitarian workers were told to seek shelter as a missile struck nearby.
该组织在一份声明中表示:“亚丁机场是人道主义工作人员、物资和医疗设备进入也门南部的主要入口,安全进出该机场至关重要。”
"Aden airport is the main entry point for humanitarian workers, supplies and medical equipment to the southern parts of Yemen, and safe access to it is crucial," the organisation said in a statement.
胡塞武装运营的马西拉电视台报道称,在其所称的沙特对也门北部焦夫地区的袭击中,有14人死亡,另有15人受伤。
Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported that 14 people were killed and 15 others were injured in what it described as a Saudi attack on the northern Yemeni Jawf region.
重新爆发的战斗打破了联合国2022年斡旋达成的停火协议,该协议此前基本遏制了这场冲突中的大规模袭击。这场冲突始于2014年胡塞武装将政府赶出萨那之后。
The renewed fighting has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce that had largely halted major attacks in the conflict, which began after the Houthis drove the government from Sanaa in 2014.
援助机构警告称,最新的暴力事件正在迅速恶化这个本已遭受世界上最严重人道主义危机之一的国家的状况。
Aid agencies warn the latest violence is rapidly worsening conditions in a country already suffering from one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.