Yemen fighting and shipping Sina reports from Mukalla

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Tagesschau describes renewed Yemen fighting, Houthi territorial gains, deaths and injuries, airstrikes in Sana'a and fighting over Taiz. Reporting from Mukalla, Ramin Sina says extremely heavy fighting took place that day on several fronts. Taiz residents are reportedly trapped by several conflict parties, including Houthis and government forces; Saudi-supported government airstrikes repeatedly also kill civilians. After a week in Yemen, Sina finds people exhausted by twelve years of fighting and sees no political solution close at hand. In the second answer he says Bab al-Mandab is closed to Saudi and Saudi-bound ships, while qualifying that neither it nor Hormuz has been completely sealed for several weeks. Small vessels and shadow fleets move oil with GPS disabled despite attack risks, apparently with U.S. escorts. He calls this a temporary, unsustainable workaround returning more oil to the market.

ARD's October 3 Mukalla exchanges describe shipping companies using smaller vessels and shadow fleets with GPS disabled to carry crude through Hormuz despite threats, returning more oil to world markets. Ramin Sina calls this temporary and unsustainable; Tagesschau qualifies US escorts as apparent, while Tagesthemen states US military protection more firmly. In the October 5 Bandar Abbas exchange, Benjamin Weber describes the Oman-coast route under US escort while ships wait on the Iranian side. He qualifies near-prewar export reports as excluding Iranian oil under the continuing US port blockade and attributes increased tanker attacks to Iran. These are compatible attributed accounts of continuing protected transit, not a dated launch, universal reopening or independently settled throughput.