On Sunday, Houthi rebels in Yemen fired ballistic missiles into the
strategically important city of Marib, killing two children and wounding more
than


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Houthis Move Closer To Seizing Control In Northern Yemen

 

(New York, N.Y.) — On Sunday, Houthi rebels in Yemen fired
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ballistic missiles into the strategically important city of Marib, killing two
children and wounding more than 30 people. The attack is a continuation of the
Houthis’ months-long assault on Marib, the last stronghold in northern Yemen of
the internationally recognized Yemeni government. This attack by the
Iran-backed group, apreviously
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U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated
Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity, compounds the dire humanitarian crisis in
Yemen, impedes United Nations-led efforts to stem the fighting, and moves the
Houthis closer to assuming near total control over northern Yemen and its gas
and oil infrastructure.

 

The Houthis <[link removed]>, also known as
Ansar Allah (Partisans of God), are an Iranian-backed, Shiite Muslim military
and political movement inYemen
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to the minority Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam, have waged a series of bloody
insurgencies against the Yemeni government since 2004, overthrowing the
government and seizing power in Sanaa in 2015. At that time, a Saudi-led
coalition of Arab states, including five Gulf Arab states, Morocco, Egypt,
Jordan, and Sudan, began intervening in Yemen to restore the U.N.-recognized
Yemeni government living in exile.

 

The ongoing conflict has reportedly resulted in the deaths of more than 12,600
Yemeni civilians and over 112,000 casualties overall. More than four million
others have been displaced since 2014, according to the United Nations.
According to an August 2021 U.N. report, approximately two-thirds of Yemen’s
population—about 20 million people—rely on humanitarian aid, while about five
million people “are one step away from succumbing to famine and the diseases
that go with it.” Additionally, the Houthis have hindered vaccination efforts
in Yemen against COVID-19 and restricted access to medical volunteers.
International efforts to negotiate a long-term ceasefire have thus far failed,
as officials have accused the Houthis of prioritizing their conquest of Marib.

 

To read CEP’s Houthis resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s Yemen resource, please click here
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