Houthis Displace 200 Families in Southern Marib During Ceasefire

Displaced children fetch water on donkey backs for their families in Hays district, southern Hodeida province, Yemen (AFP)
Displaced children fetch water on donkey backs for their families in Hays district, southern Hodeida province, Yemen (AFP)
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Houthis Displace 200 Families in Southern Marib During Ceasefire

Displaced children fetch water on donkey backs for their families in Hays district, southern Hodeida province, Yemen (AFP)
Displaced children fetch water on donkey backs for their families in Hays district, southern Hodeida province, Yemen (AFP)

The Yemeni government accused Houthi militias of forcibly displacing nearly 1,400 residents from the Harib district in the southern province of Marib over the past seven months. This is despite the UN-brokered ceasefire that has been in place for a year and a half.

This comes at a time when the UN has affirmed that 98% of African migrants flowing into Yemen are seeking employment, and 85% of them originate from rural areas in their own countries. Their migration is not driven by political motives.

According to the Human Rights Ministry bureau in Marib province, the Houthi militia has targeted homes in the Al-Ghneim area of the Harib district, as part of their ongoing assault on villages and residential areas within the district.

The most recent attack occurred earlier this week when the area was struck by rockets and drones, resulting in the destruction and burning of numerous houses and the forced displacement of dozens of families. Additionally, several farms were also destroyed.

Authorities reported that this bombardment has led to the displacement of 213 families since the beginning of 2023. The Houthis have also demolished and set fire to dozens of houses and farms owned by the residents.

In an official statement, authorities asserted that these crimes and grave violations fall within the category of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

They constitute a blatant violation of all international laws, values, and treaties. The office affirmed that all of these violations and crimes are documented and recorded, and they will not be subject to statute of limitations.

The perpetrators will face deterrent punishment, and justice will be achieved for the victims, sooner or later.

The Yemeni Human Rights Ministry called upon the UN, the Security Council, the Human Rights Council, and all organizations concerned with human rights to condemn these “terrorist” acts against civilians and to take strong and serious stances against the Houthi militia, categorizing it as a terrorist organization.

 

 



Amnesty Accuses Israel of 'Live-streamed Genocide' against Gaza Palestinians

TOPSHOT - Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building, a school-turned-shelter, in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
TOPSHOT - Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building, a school-turned-shelter, in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
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Amnesty Accuses Israel of 'Live-streamed Genocide' against Gaza Palestinians

TOPSHOT - Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building, a school-turned-shelter, in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
TOPSHOT - Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building, a school-turned-shelter, in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide".

Israel has rejected accusations of "genocide" from Amnesty, other rights groups and some states in its war in Gaza.

The conflict erupted after the Palestinian group Hamas's deadly October 7, 2023 attacks inside Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Hamas also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.

Israel in response launched a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and a ground operation that according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory has left at least 52,243 dead.

"Since 7 October 2023, when Hamas perpetrated horrific crimes against Israeli citizens and others and captured more than 250 hostages, the world has been made audience to a live-streamed genocide," Amnesty's secretary general Agnes Callamard said in the introduction to the report.

"States watched on as if powerless, as Israel killed thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire multigenerational families, destroying homes, livelihoods, hospitals and schools," she added.

'Extreme levels of suffering'

Gaza's civil defense agency said early Tuesday that four people were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on displaced persons' tents near the Al-Iqleem area in Southern Gaza.

The agency earlier warned fuel shortages meant it had been forced to suspend eight out of 12 emergency vehicles in Southern Gaza, including ambulances.

The lack of fuel "threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and displaced persons in shelter centers," it said in a statement.

Amnesty's report said the Israeli campaign had left most of the Palestinians of Gaza "displaced, homeless, hungry, at risk of life-threatening diseases and unable to access medical care, power or clean water".

Amnesty said that throughout 2024 it had "documented multiple war crimes by Israel, including direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks".

It said Israel's actions forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, around 90 percent of Gaza's population, and "deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe".

Even as protesters hit the streets in Western capitals, "the world's governments individually and multilaterally failed repeatedly to take meaningful action to end the atrocities and were slow even in calling for a ceasefire".

Meanwhile, Amnesty also sounded alarm over Israeli actions in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, and repeated an accusation that Israel was employing a system of "apartheid".

"Israel's system of apartheid became increasingly violent in the occupied West Bank, marked by a sharp increase in unlawful killings and state-backed attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians," it said.

Heba Morayef, Amnesty director for the Middle East and North Africa region, denounced "the extreme levels of suffering that Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to endure on a daily basis over the past year" as well as "the world's complete inability or lack of political will to put a stop to it".