Punishment by Civil War

For Yemen’s resistance to Israel’s Gaza Genocide, the US and its allies are threatening to restart its Civil War

Yemen, the poorest country in the UN’s Middle East and North Africa regions, is in the news again. Mostly because of the fact that forces of the Ansar Allah movement (“Houthis”) have detained, according to Human Rights Watch, at least a dozen UN and NGO employees. AL-Monitor and Al Jazeera report a total of between 15 and 17 detainees. The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 members of its staff.

At the same time, Yemen is also continuing to make headlines due to Ansar Allah’s ongoing campaign against Israel’s Gaza Genocide. Using Yemen’s chokehold location on the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between them, but also striking farther afield, Ansar Allah has been targeting ships on their way to Israeli ports or belonging to Israel and its Western partners. Yemen under Ansar Allah has, thus, been the only country that has acted persistently and systematically in genuine accordance with the 1948 UN Genocide Convention which obliges governments not only not to commit the crime of genocide or be complicit in it (as the US, Germany, the UK, Canada and other Western states are), but also to prevent it. And Ansar Allah’s intervention has proven effective, its “economic fallout widening,” according to a recent Bloomberg report, and affecting shipping rates virtually around the world.