By Murad Abdo
For over five years, Yemen experienced a prolonged conflict pitting the country's Houthi Ansarullah movement against resigned regime forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition.
The armed confrontations are still ongoing and expanding further to new areas, forcing thousands of helpless Yemeni people to cope with most difficult living conditions caused by the deadly years-long conflict.
The majority of the ordinary Yemenis found no solutions except enduring the devastating impacts of the war that hit different aspects of their life.
In Yemen's southern province of Dhalea, 138 km north of Aden province, the country's temporary capital, fighting escalated between the forces loyal to former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthis.
People in Dhalea struggle to make life go on despite the difficult living conditions and intense armed confrontations that are still raging on their province, particularly in the mountainous northern parts.
Citizens coming from different mountainous villages are filling the city's sole main street and other untidy public markets in the Hadi-controlled province of Dhalea despite the sounds of explosions ranging out from the nearby frontlines.
Mohamed Qaid, a Dhalea-based resident, told Xinhua that people became fearless and started to get used to their new lifestyle of random shelling on some residential neighborhoods.
"Life is going on here in Dhalea and nothing has been changed despite the ongoing fighting on the city's northern outskirts," Qaid said.
He added that "citizens in Dhalea are enduring the difficult living conditions caused by war with more resilience."
The Houthi group are still pushing hundreds of fighters into the northern and western outskirts of Dhalea and escalated artillery shelling on the Saudi-backed Hadi forces.
Local military officials confirmed to Xinhua that a number of ballistic missiles were fired by the Houthi revolutionaries against Dhalea away from residential areas during the past weeks, causing no casualties.
Source: Xinhua, Edited by Website Team
