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Fuel and cooking gas prices have soared, food supplies are disrupted and hospitals in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz are running short of medicine, medical materials and fuel as Houthi forces keep supply routes closed and fighting intensifies around the city.

Humanitarian groups and local officials warn that the closures, which tightened in October, are cutting off patients from care, slowing water supplies and blocking aid deliveries to the densely populated city, which has endured years of war and movement restrictions.

Fuel and cooking gas prices up sharply

Yemen has been in a civil war since September 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and several provinces. A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been supporting the Yemeni government since March 2015.

Key takeaways

• Petrol prices in Taiz have risen by more than 135 percent and cooking gas prices by roughly 300 percent since supply routes closed.
• Republican Hospital has cut dialysis sessions from 3.5 to 4 hours to 2.5 hours because of supply and fuel shortages.
• Yemen's health ministry warned on 10 October that medicine, IV solutions and fuel stocks at Taiz health facilities were nearly exhausted.
• The WFP said on 14 October that fighting, road closures and insecurity had blocked aid to about 800,000 people in Yemen, including Taiz.