Taiz has been known as the city of resilience, the heart of Yemen's revolution, and hence has been subject to continuous shelling for the past months by the Republican Guards, led by Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh's son, Ahmed.
Taiz ha sido conocida como la ciudad de la resistencia, el corazón de la revolución yemenita y por lo tanto ha sido objeto, en los últimos meses, de contínuos bombardeos por la Guardia Republicana, liderada por Ahmed el hijo del presidente yemení Ali Abdullah Saleh.