Yemeni Government Accuses Houthis of Exploiting Truce to Increase Looting

Part of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Yemen in the city of Aden. (Saba)
Part of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Yemen in the city of Aden. (Saba)
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Yemeni Government Accuses Houthis of Exploiting Truce to Increase Looting

Part of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Yemen in the city of Aden. (Saba)
Part of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Yemen in the city of Aden. (Saba)

The Central Bank of Yemen in Aden affirmed its commitment to the monetary policies it set to protect the local currency from collapse and maintain the stability of the markets.

In parallel, Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani accused the Houthi militia of exploiting the truce to double the looting of resources and increase levies.

In an official statement, Al-Eryani said the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia has continued to plunder hundreds of billions of state revenues, without assuming any obligations, and stopped the payment of salaries to public sector employees in the areas under its control, ignoring the difficult economic conditions of citizens and the worsening humanitarian crisis.

The Yemeni minister stated that the total revenues looted by the Houthi militia from taxes, customs, zakat, endowments, fuel, and domestic gas amounted in 2020 to 2.3 trillion riyals.

Al-Eryani accused the Houthi militia of “taking advantage of the UN-sponsored truce in early 2022 to escalate the systematic looting of public revenues, tax and customs revenues for oil derivatives through the port of Hodeidah and trafficking in smuggled Iranian oil in local markets…”

He called on the international community, the United Nations, and US envoys to “exercise real pressure on the Houthi militia, to stop its systematic looting of state revenues, and to allocate it to the regular payment of employee salaries, according to the 2014 civil service database, instead of directing it in favor of the wealth of its leaders…”

The Houthi militia has stopped paying the salaries of government employees in the areas under its controls since late 2016, despite collecting hundreds of billions of riyals from the revenues of institutions.

Meanwhile, the Central Bank in Aden launched on Wednesday the last session of the meetings of its board of directors for the current year 2022, headed by the bank’s governor Ahmed Ahmed Ghaleb.

The Yemeni official media stated that the meeting reviewed “the bank’s financial statements for the period 2016-2020, the observations submitted by the external auditor, and issues related to strengthening the principles of transparency, governance, and control procedures for the banking sector and exchange companies.”



28 Palestinians Including Children Killed in Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza

Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on July 11, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on July 11, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
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28 Palestinians Including Children Killed in Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza

Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on July 11, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on July 11, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said Saturday.

The children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital said. Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser Hospital.

The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. The military did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment on the civilian deaths.

The Hamas-led group killed some 1,200 people in their Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and abducted 251. They still hold 50 hostages, less than half of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.

Israel’s offensive has killed over 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, which is under Gaza’s Hamas-run government, doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count. The UN and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.

US President Donald Trump has said that he is closing in on another ceasefire agreement that would see more hostages released and potentially wind down the war. But after two days of talks this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there were no signs of a breakthrough.