Conflict in Yemen

William Lawrence

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fact that we are turning the page on the past and that all these groups are coming together, and the Saudi aid and investment … the stars are aligning a little on Yemen. Let's hope they bear fruit.”

Aljazeera

Political science professor at the American University in Washington, DC

06 Apr 2022 0 2

Dave Des Roches

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think it's just strategic exhaustion, the Houthis for a long time have felt that their success was inevitable, but they had a huge setback in Marib [city], which has been besieged for over a year… At the same time, you see an expansion into Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi…I think both sides realised, this war is not going the way we want to, maybe we're going to have to settle for half a loaf.”

Aljazeera

Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Gulf International Forum

01 Apr 2022 4 2

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“You must take that momentum in order to make sure that this truce is fully respected and that it is renewed and … that a true political process is launched. This demonstrates that even when things look impossible when there is the will to compromise, peace becomes possible.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-general of the United Nations

01 Apr 2022 2 2

Hans Grundberg

Inserted 2 years ago

“The parties accepted to halt all offensive military air, ground and maritime operations inside Yemen and across its borders; they also agreed for fuel ships to enter into Hodeidah ports and commercial flights to operate in and out of Sanaa airport to predetermined destinations in the region.”

Aljazeera

UN special envoy for Yemen

01 Apr 2022 4 2

James Farwell

Inserted 2 years ago

“The situation is becoming more dangerous because the nature of weapons being used in the attacks is becoming more deadly. The Houthis are trying to bring pressure to the Saudi-UAE coalition to bring things to a favorable close. The only way this [conflict] is going to be resolved is if the Saudi, the Emirates and Houthis sit directly to together and work things out. There isn't any alternative because neither side has been able to gain an advantage over the other.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow at the Middle East Institute

31 Jan 2022 4 3

Torbjorn Soltvedt

Inserted 2 years ago

“There's a difficult dilemma facing the Emirati authorities now. They are increasingly under threat from the Houthis, but at the same time … we've had a pretty extensive military campaign in Yemen and rather than reduce the missile threats to the GCC states, what we've seen instead is an increase in that threat. If the UAE decides to target the Houthis more aggressively, that would be stoking tensions further and triggering a downwards spiral. It's going to have to be something that goes beyond just purely defensive military posture … It will have to involve diplomacy, efforts to increase the resilience of critical civilian and energy infrastructure in the country.”

Aljazeera

Principal MENA analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft

24 Jan 2022 6 4

Taha al-Motawakel

Inserted 2 years ago

“We consider this a war crime against humanity. The world should take responsibility at this critical moment in human history.”

Aljazeera

Yemen’s Houthi Health Minister

21 Jan 2022 2 2

Ahmed Mahat

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are many bodies still at the scene of the airstrike, many missing people. It is impossible to know how many people have been killed. It seems to have been a horrific act of violence.”

Nytimes

Head of Doctors Without Borders’ mission in Yemen

21 Jan 2022 3 3

Nasr al-Din Amir

Inserted 2 years ago

“Seaports and airports are shut so how can these alleged weapons can reach us?”

Aljazeera

Deputy chief of the Houthis’ ministry of information

09 Jan 2022 3 2

Kristian Ulrichsen

Inserted 2 years ago

“With the Iran nuclear deal still up in the air and the war in Yemen continuing to rage, Biden's approach to the Middle East is very similar to that of Trump. The deeper down, the substance, is not as different as one might have imagined. So, it's more one of style.”

Aljazeera

Research fellow at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University

31 Dec 2021 5 6

Hussain al-Bukhaiti

Inserted 2 years ago

“It would be silly for the Houthis to leave all areas in Yemen to use the Sanaa airport as it is under 24 hours monitoring by Saudi backed forces. It was silly to see al-Malki [Saudi General Turki al-Malki] talking about what he called 'outside intervention' of parties outside of Yemen - as he said Hezbollah and Iran - but we see at the back [at the press conference] flags of 12 countries that are involved in the war.”

Aljazeera

Journalist and political commentator based in Yemen capital Sanaa

26 Dec 2021 6 4

John Fisher

Inserted 2 years ago

“It was a very tight vote. We understand that Saudi Arabia and their coalition allies and Yemen were working at a high level for some time to persuade states in capitals through a mixture of threats and incentives, to back their bids to terminate the mandate of this international monitoring mechanism. The loss of the mandate is a huge blow for accountability in Yemen and for the credibility of the human rights council as a whole. For a mandate to have been defeated by a party to the conflict for no reason other than to evade scrutiny for international crimes is a travesty.”

Theguardian

Geneva Director of Human Rights Watch

01 Dec 2021 6 3

Patrick Smith

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Burhan-Hemeti [Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo] dynamic is weird. They are mutually treacherous. The Egyptians favour Burhan due to his training in Cairo. The rich, ruthless desert warrior Hemeti is more to Saudi and Emirati tastes. He delivered the mercenaries for the war in Yemen, and made more money out of it.”

Middleeasteye

Editor of Africa Confidential

29 Oct 2021 10 5

James Elder

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone: 10,000 children have been killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015. That's the equivalent of four children every day.”

Inews

Unicef spokesperson

20 Oct 2021 2 4

Hussain al-Bukhaiti

Inserted 2 years ago

“Most of the fighters advancing towards Marib are from Marib province. [The Houthis] are mainly using fighters from the area that they are going to liberate, and this sends a good message. If all the people there were against the [Houthis], I don't think they could advance one metre.”

Aljazeera

Yemeni political analyst aligned with the Houthi movement

17 Oct 2021 3 4

Saleh Alnoud

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is difficult to know who controls what in Yemen, but the central government is formally in charge of Shabwah and should be held responsible for the lack of security and services over there.”

Aljazeera

Lawyer in international humanitarian law

06 Oct 2021 2 2

Maysaa Shuja al-Deen

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is no government military strategy. These government offensives are usually an attempt to increase activity on a front line, alleviate popular discontent, or get more funding. No decision has been taken to push for victory, that is very clear. Instead, most offensives are merely aimed at presenting an image to the media, and lifting the morale of the troops. The government would need to completely change its leadership in order to change its military performance. The leadership, led by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was part of Saleh's [Ali Abdullah Saleh] corrupt system. He is a man who was the silent vice president between 1994 and 2011, and is used to doing nothing. The Houthis do not need to control the whole country to win, just the areas they currently control, where most of the Yemeni population live. Can they do more? Possibly. But a total victory would be difficult, and the country would prove impossible to govern.”

Aljazeera

Yemeni researcher

14 Sep 2021 5 3

Mahdi Balgaith

Inserted 2 years ago

“The internally displaced people are suffering. Many of the families have been forced to live out in the open without proper shelter in terrible conditions; they lack the most basic needs, such as shelter, food, water, and educational facilities. Government forces in Rahabah, along with their allies, were unorganised. The main tribes fighting with the government forces in Rahabah received limited support, while the Houthi forces were organised and well-supported.”

Aljazeera

Analyst at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies

14 Sep 2021 3 3

Martin Griffiths

Inserted 3 years ago

“Famine has now arrived to add to the tragedy of Yemen. It is logical therefore and it has been incumbent for the parties now more than ever to stop the fighting and silence the guns.”

Aljazeera

United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen

16 Mar 2021 0 6

Hashem Ahelbarra

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Houthis are saying that they are responding to the latest escalation in the area with intense Saudi-led coalition strikes targeting Houthi positions in Sanaa. At the same time, by the end of this month, we will be commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis. The attack yesterday, deeper into Saudi Arabia, targeting vital refineries … is a message by the Houthis that they are far from being defeated and that they will continue to gain ground and expand their military influence.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist

08 Mar 2021 4 4

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“The fact that we are turning the page on the past and that all these groups are coming together, and the Saudi aid and investment … the stars are aligning a little on Yemen. Let's hope they bear fruit.”

“You must take that momentum in order to make sure that this truce is fully respected and that it is renewed and … that a true political process is launched. This demonstrates that even when things look impossible when there is the will to compromise, peace becomes possible.”

“The parties accepted to halt all offensive military air, ground and maritime operations inside Yemen and across its borders; they also agreed for fuel ships to enter into Hodeidah ports and commercial flights to operate in and out of Sanaa airport to predetermined destinations in the region.”

“We consider this a war crime against humanity. The world should take responsibility at this critical moment in human history.”

“There are many bodies still at the scene of the airstrike, many missing people. It is impossible to know how many people have been killed. It seems to have been a horrific act of violence.”

“Seaports and airports are shut so how can these alleged weapons can reach us?”

“With the Iran nuclear deal still up in the air and the war in Yemen continuing to rage, Biden's approach to the Middle East is very similar to that of Trump. The deeper down, the substance, is not as different as one might have imagined. So, it's more one of style.”

“The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone: 10,000 children have been killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015. That's the equivalent of four children every day.”

“Most of the fighters advancing towards Marib are from Marib province. [The Houthis] are mainly using fighters from the area that they are going to liberate, and this sends a good message. If all the people there were against the [Houthis], I don't think they could advance one metre.”

“It is difficult to know who controls what in Yemen, but the central government is formally in charge of Shabwah and should be held responsible for the lack of security and services over there.”

“Famine has now arrived to add to the tragedy of Yemen. It is logical therefore and it has been incumbent for the parties now more than ever to stop the fighting and silence the guns.”

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