Editing Hodeidah (section)

==History==
In Islamic chronicles, the name Hodeidah was first mentioned in the year 1454/55. The city's importance grew in the 1520s, when the Ottomans took over the Yemeni [[Tihamah|Tihāmah]] region.<ref name="BRIT">{{cite news |publisher=[[britannica]] |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Al-Hudaydah |title=Al-Ḥudaydah |access-date=July 23, 2018 }}</ref>

In the 1830s, Hodeidah was controlled by [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt|Ibrahim Pasha]]'s troops, which turned over its administration to [[Sherif]] Husayn ibn Ali Haydar.<ref>{{cite web |author=Caesar E. Farah |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/5469 |title=Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in Yemen: 1840-49 |website=dergipark.org |page=74 |date= |access-date=}}</ref> In 1849, it became part of the [[Yemen Eyalet]].

The [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]] writer [[Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir]] visited Hodeidah on his pilgrimage to [[Mecca]] in 1854, and describes the city in his account of the journey, mentioning that the custom of chewing [[khat]] was prevalent in the city at this time.<ref>{{cite journal |author-last=Ché-Ross|author-first=Raimy |title=Munshi Abdullah's Vogage to Mecca: A Preliminary Introduction and Annotated Translation |journal=Indonesia & the Malay World|date=July 2000 |volume=28 |issue=81 |page=196}}</ref>

During the 19th century, Hodeidah had a large [[Slavery in Yemen|slave]] market. The slaves came from the [[Oromia]] region of modern [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Waldmeier |first1=Theophilus |title=The autobiography of Theophilus Waldmeier, missionary: being an account of ten years' life in Abyssinia; and sixteen years in Syria |url=https://archive.org/details/theophiluswaldme00walduoft/page/2/mode/2up |publisher=London : S.W. Partridge |access-date=1 January 2024 |page=34 |date=1886}}</ref>

[[File:434 A Street in Hodaidah.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A street in Hodaidah in 1893]]
In 1914, during [[World War I]], [[German Empire|Imperial German]] troops led by Major [[Freiherr]] Othmar von Stotzingen established "{{ill|Stotzingen-Mission|de}}", a [[Radio broadcasting|wireless station]], at Hodeidah, which was used during the [[Arab Revolt]] to relay communications from [[Ottoman Constantinople|Constantinople]] (now [[Istanbul]]) to [[German East Africa]] as well as broadcast [[propaganda]] to [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]], [[Somalis land part of population Northern side]] and [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]].<ref>{{cite book |last = Waugh | first = Sir Telford | year = 1937 | title=Royal Central Asian Journal Volume XXIV part II | page= 313 }}translating the German account given in the German journal, ''Orient Rundschau''</ref>

The city was briefly occupied by Saudi forces during the [[Saudi–Yemeni war (1934)|Saudi–Yemeni war of 1934]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=David Bidwell |title=Dictionary Of Modern Arab History |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136162916 |page=294}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Massimiliano Fiore |title=Anglo-Italian Relations in the Middle East, 1922–1940 |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317180944 |pages=32–3}}</ref>

After a disastrous fire in January 1961 destroyed much of Hodeidah, it was rebuilt, particularly [[Hudaydah Port|the port]] facilities, with [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] aid. A highway to [[Sanaa]], the capital, was completed in 1961. The city was also the site of a Soviet naval base in the 1970s and 1980s.

On 20 July 2024, during the [[Gaza war]], the city was the target of an [[Israel]]i [[2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen|air raid]] in response to repeated Houthi attacks against Israel and an attack on [[Tel Aviv]] that resulted in the death of a civilian. The Israeli strike targeted port oil facilities and a power plant, resulting in a large fire killing six and wounding 87. The [[IDF]] said that they targeted military facilities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Israel says it struck Yemen's Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/20/air-raids-hit-yemens |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>