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Yemen Press Agency
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Yemen Press Agency
Sanaa calls for urgent int'l intervention regarding critical conditions of expatriates in Saudi Arabia
SANAA, July 17 (YPA) – The Sanaa-based Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jamal Amer, called for urgent international intervention regarding the critical humanitarian and legal conditions facing a large number of Yemeni expatriates detained in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This came in the letters he sent to both the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Jürg Lauber, and the IOM Director General, Amy Pope. The letters confirmed that the ministry in Sanaa had received numerous documented reports from citizens and their families, as well as from concerned civil society organizations, indicating practices that contravene the most basic principles of human rights and international law against Yemeni expatriates in Saudi Arabia. These practices focused in private on the arbitrary detention of many expatriates who were arrested without clear charges or being brought to trial within a reasonable timeframe in accordance with international legal standards. The ministry's letters indicated that practices attributed to complex administrative procedures related to deportation or the lack of a sponsor, which unlawfully deprive these individuals of their liberty and place their families in an extremely difficult humanitarian and economic situation. In addition, Yemeni diplomatic and consular missions in Saudi Arabia face difficulty in accessing detainees and depriving them of their fundamental right to defend themselves and to exercise of their internationally guaranteed legal rights. The minister pointed out that these practices not only contravened fundamental principles of human rights and international law, but also exacerbated the humanitarian suffering of citizens already living under extremely harsh conditions due to the aggression and blockade in Yemen. He stated that these conditions constituted a clear violation of numerous international instruments to which states were bound, including the principles related to the right to liberty, personal security, and a fair trial. Minister Amer expressed the Sanaa government's confidence in the vital role that the OHCHR, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the IOM played in protecting and providing assistance to migrants and displaced persons around the world. He called on these organizations to urgently and directly intervene to address this urgent humanitarian issue by urging the Saudi authorities to immediately release Yemeni detainees who have completed their sentences or who are being arbitrarily detained without legal basis, in accordance with their international obligations.
Yemen Press Agency
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yemen Press Agency
Israeli military targets bombed in Jaffa
SANAA, April 11 (YPA) – The Sanaa-based armed forces declared on Friday it launched a qualitative military operation targeting two Israeli military targets in the occupied Jaffa area of Palestine territories. Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahiya Sarie said in a televised statement that the operation was carried out with a number of UAVs 'Jaffa'. He said the drone attack came in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear Mujahideen, and also in response to the ongoing genocidal war of against Palestinian brothers in Gaza. The spokesman re-affirmed that Yemeni armed forces would be committed to support the grievance of the Palestinian people, as well as confronting the ongoing American aggression against Yemen. He renewed the armed forces' commitment to their religious, moral, and humanitarian duty towards the steadfast people in Gaza until the aggression is stopped and the siege is lifted. Earlier in the day, the spokesman affirmed that a number of cruise missiles and UAVs had targeted the US warships in the northern Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier Truman.
Yemen Press Agency
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yemen Press Agency
Yemen forces renew missiles attacks on Israeli targets, US aircraft carriers
SANAA, April 28 (YPA) – The Sanaa-based armed forces of Yemen renewed on Monday its missile and drone attack on a vital Israeli enemy target in the occupied area of Ashkelon, as well as the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships in the Red Sea. In a statement, Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sarie, affirmed that the air force carried out a military operation targeting the vital Israeli target in the occupied Ashkelon area with a 'Yaffa' drone. The spokesman revealed that the US aircraft carrier Truman and its associated warships were attacked using a number of cruise and ballistic missiles and drones. He confirmed that the armed forces forced the aircraft carrier to retreat from its previous position and head to the far north of the Red Sea. Sarie said that the Yemeni operations came in retaliation for the US aggression and its massacres against civilians Sanaa, especially the migrant shelter in Saada. 'The Armed Forces reiterated their commitment to continuing to target and pursue the aircraft carrier and all enemy warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggression against Yemen is stopped,' he added. The spokesman re-affirmed the armed forces' continued commitment to preventing Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas and confronting and resisting the American aggression, in addition to continuing to support and stand by the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip until the aggression against Gaza is stopped and the siege lifted.
Yemen Press Agency
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yemen Press Agency
Yemen military launches drone attacks against Israeli targets, US aircraft carrier
SANAA, April 26 (YPA) – The Sanaa-based armed forces of Yemen declared on Saturday a new attack on two vital Israeli enemy targets in the occupied areas of Jaffa and Ashkelon, as well as the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships in the Red Sea. Brig. Gen. Yahiya Sarie, a spokesman of the armed forces, said in a televised statement that two vital Israeli occupation targets were targeted using two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Meanwhile, the spokesman affirmed that the armed forces carried out another military operation targeting the US warships, led by the US aircraft carrier Truman, north of the Red Sea, using several drones. 'The Armed Forces will continue to carry out their military operations deep inside the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine at an escalating pace, seeking help from Allah, and will not stop doing so regardless of the extent of the American aggression against our country,' Brig. Gen. Sarie affirmed. He also re-affirmed that the armed forces will meet the American escalation with a similar escalation, and that military operations will be continued in the Red and Arab seas against all hostile targets until the aggression against Gaza is stopped and the siege is lifted.
Shafaq News
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Houthis: US launched 1,000 strikes on Yemen since March
Shafaq News/ Yemen's Ansarallah group [Houthis] claimed on Tuesday that the United States has launched nearly 1,000 airstrikes on Yemen since March 15, unleashing heavy civilian casualties and widespread devastation, according to the group-aligned newspaper 26 September. The group accused the United States of killing 217 civilians and injuring 436 others—mostly women and children—through nearly 1,000 airstrikes since mid-March. The reported figures exclude casualties among the group's members. Jamal Amer, foreign minister in the Sanaa-based Ansarallah government, dispatched formal letters to several UN bodies, including the Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, urging the creation of an independent international committee to investigate what he labeled as 'US war crimes.' Amer alleged the strikes had deliberately hit 'vital civilian facilities'—airports, ports, farms, hospitals, water reservoirs, and archaeological landmarks. He cited a particularly deadly strike on Ras Isa port, which he said killed 80 civilians and wounded 150 others. He also pointed to an airstrike on a residential district in Sanaa on Sunday, claiming it left 12 civilians dead and 30 injured. The figures have yet to be independently verified. In his messages, Amer argued that the US campaign was not aimed at securing Red Sea navigation, but rather at shielding what he described as the 'usurping Zionist [Israel] entity.' He accused Washington of trying to break the siege on Israel, prolong attacks on Palestinians, and silence 'Yemen's religious and moral support' for the people of Gaza. On Monday, US Navy warships carried out six strikes targeting the Yemeni group positions in southern Hodeidah.
