Yemen Humanitarian Crisis and Conflict Analysis

... it being very...

- The money they can throw around, well, maybe it has no limits.- Yes.

But another important thing that has happened is the blockade that Ansar Allah

has declared... - Against Saudi Arabia, actually.- Yes,

against Saudi Arabia. You see, now...

Since before the Ramadan war, for the umpteenth time, serious negotiations took

place between Saudi Arabia and Ansar Allah in Muscat, and...

Probably in one or two other countries, in another country.

Where they exchanged messages and made promises, like,' We accept your sovereignty,

your share of the future government...'

And, I don't know,'

We'll pay the war damages as we previously committed,

we'll release and exchange prisoners,' and so on.

Well, these negotiations went on and on, and finally...

None of these promises led to any results.

And well, after, well, you see, now that issue...

We also have the humanitarian situation of Yemen, our colleagues can...

- Yes, there are images of Yemen's humanitarian situation,

our colleagues have the reports.- Yes, it's a UN report.

People can look it up themselves, search for it...

They can look at the UN reports for 2025, 2026, and recent years.

The situation that... Yemeni society is facing.

Now, you see these numbers, for example,

12 million people need humanitarian aid,

Over five million people need urgent humanitarian aid.

The situation of, I don't know, healthcare, the situation of education...

If they compare these numbers to before 2021,

during the war when there was no ceasefire,

they will see that the numbers have not only not improved,

but have actually worsened.

Meaning the situation of the Yemeni people under the blockade,

of which Saudi Arabia is the main perpetrator...

And at times, the US and Israel have also played

a role in it.

The situation of the Yemeni people has worsened, it hasn't gotten better,

it has worsened.

Well, it left no choice for Ansar Allah…

- Now, this situation might raise a question in the audience's mind.

These 22.3 million people that the UN says need help, are they all in the

areas under Ansar Allah's control,

or does it include the southern areas as well?

- This is across the entire Yemeni society,

which again, if we look at the same 70 to 30 ratio, roughly,

with a bit of tolerance and error, yes, that's right.

Because 70%, more than 70% of Yemen's population is under…

- So now, for example, about 14 or 15 million of those who are said to need

humanitarian aid in Yemen…

That southern Yemen doesn't actually have a blockade problem.

- No, the problem there is not the blockade, but the problem of poverty,

the problem of corruption, the problem of insecurity, these are problems that…

- Meaning the situation of the people there is still unfavorable as well.

- It's unfavorable there too, and well,

considering that the major part— since the population is high, agriculture is high,

and well, the major part of Yemen's economy is also in the north,

this means that when the economy on that side is severely struggling,

it also has a negative impact on this side.

But well, look, the situation of the Yemeni

nation after that ceasefire was announced not only

didn't get better, but in some cases, it got worse,

and the promises also came to nothing,

leaving no choice for the Yemeni nation and Ansar

Allah except to finally use the only tool at its disposal, namely the military tool,

to move towards reclaiming the rights of the Yemeni nation.

That's why... Well...

After all, the Islamic Republic also tried to the

best of its ability to break the blockade, both last year and in the flight that...

was carried out after the funeral ceremony of the leader, the martyred leader.

Well, the Islamic Republic also made efforts, but despite Saudi

Arabia's claim— before that, Saudi Arabia claimed,"

I will allow the flights"— And well, if you remember, the Israelis came

and bombed the airport and hit the plane that was on the runway,

and then the Yemenis, for example... had no planes to fly.

Well, here, the falsehood and untruth of the Saudis' claim was also proven,

and it was shown that it is actually the Saudis themselves who are seeking...

strongly seeking to continue the blockade of Yemen.

Regarding the port of Al- Hudaydah, as I said, the Saudis are

obstructing a lot, by using the UN Security Council

resolution and that Djibouti mechanism as a pretext,

the issue of the entry of...

- Which Security Council resolution?

- It's Security Council Resolution 2216, I think, from 2015, meaning even

before the war and before Ansar Allah entered Sana'a and so on.

It places Yemen under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and imposes

sanctions on it, and based on that, the UN sets up a mechanism where every ship

bound for Yemeni ports must go to Djibouti to be inspected first.

Well, this in itself causes a lot of goods to spoil; it's a long route,

and sometimes a ship has to wait for several months just to unload,

and these maintenance, warehousing, and ship charter costs spill over to the goods,

making them more expensive.

Consequently, many companies refuse to ship goods to Yemen, which has created

very serious problems there.

As for the goods unloaded at the Port of Aden,

their cost is usually exorbitant,

and they manage it to put pressure on Ansar Allah, by not allowing

them to bring them in, sometimes trying to prevent those goods from reaching

Ansar Allah- controlled areas, or making sure they arrive with great difficulty.

Overall, they left Ansar Allah with no choice but to use its only tool,

the military lever,

to secure the rights of the Yemeni people.

- To come and impose the blockade. Now and…