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[10/10/2025 07:17]

ADEN-SABA
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms (YNRF) reported 5423 violations committed by the Iranian regime backed Houthi terrorist militias against health facilities, hospitals and health workers during the period from 2017 to 2024.

According to the report, the violations included direct killing and injury of medical staff and paramedics, arrest, enforced disappearance against doctors and nurses, field executions, physical assaults, closure of health facilities and hospitals, direct targeting with mortar shells, howitzers, and Katyusha rockets, bombing and booby-trapping health facilities, seizing medical aid, looting hospitals, selling medicines on the black market and depriving civilians of them.

The YNRF reported 167 cases of arrest and abduction, most of which occurred while the victims were in hospitals, medical centers, or their private clinics, and 19 cases of enforced disappearance, although all the abductees meet the criteria for enforced disappearance.

There are also 1,240 cases of violations affecting health facilities and hospitals, according to the report.

The report cited 732 cases of closure and raids on health centers, hospitals, private clinics, and pharmacies, 229 cases of partial destruction due to random bombing, 137 cases of seizure and fortification, 36 cases of total destruction due to rocket and artillery shelling and tank attacks, 65 cases of looting and tampering, in addition to 12 cases of planting explosives and detonations, and 29 cases of direct targeting of ambulances

Furthermore, there were 689 cases of looting of ambulances belonging to government hospitals in different governorates, which were used for their military activities such as transporting soldiers and moving leadership and military supplies.

The YNRF reported 1,107 cases of pharmacy closures and looting of 18 medicine warehouses that the Houthi militias had closed. There were 569 staff members, including personnel, employees, doctors and nurses reported to have been dismissed.