Crimes committed by the Houthis — Health
In November 2023 Yemen Shabab Net reported an activist’s account that Sanaa’s public al-Sabeen hospital was withholding the body of a child named Hudhayfah pending payment of
Medical student Jamaan al-Samei was shot dead at al-Wahdah teaching hospital in Dhamar on 24 September 2023 by a university guard described by Yemen Shabab Net as a Houthi gun
The Houthis detained Ibrahim Mahrous, director of al-Badr hospital in Ibb, in June 2023, released him and detained him again in August, sources told Yemen Shabab Net. The arti
The family of captured soldier Abdulwahab Numan al-Shajea was notified of his death in Houthi custody in October 2022, after he had been captured wounded during fighting in al
The Houthis imposed a siege on Khubzah on 12 July 2022 and began heavy shelling on 19 July, according to SAM’s statement carried by Yemen Shabab Net. On 20 July it reported te
One civilian was killed and three others wounded by a mortar shell near the health institute in al-Shamasi, eastern Taiz, on 21 March 2022, residents told Yemen Shabab Net. Th
The Houthis besieged Al-Abdiyah from 23 September, restricting civilian movement and the delivery of humanitarian and medical supplies.
Three patients sustained fragment wounds and the dermatology hospital in al-Mudhaffar, Taiz, was damaged when two Houthi shells hit on 26 June 2020, local sources told Yemen S
Houthi and allied forces shelled Al-Dabouaa in Taiz, killing at least five civilians and injuring seven. The rounds hit near a maternal and child health centre, houses and a s
From September 2015, the Houthis and their allies restricted food and medicine entering Taiz, controlled key entry checkpoints and confiscated water, food and cooking gas carr
Houthi gunmen entered the Taiz home of doctor and activist Abd al-Kader al-Guneid on 5 August 2015, took him away by force and seized money and belongings, Amnesty Internation
UN experts documented Houthi-Saleh control of main access roads to Taiz from around August 2015, creating an effective blockade during 2015–2016. Effects included restrictions
