The Houthis’ repeated attacks on Riyadh airport, resulting in hundreds of casualties among innocent passengers and staff, have demonstrated their disregard for international humanitarian law, which prohibits attacking civilian targets such as airports. It also considers targeting them intentionally a war crime.

These attacks repeat the same wanton indifference to the loss of human life that was clear in earlier attacks targeting the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah and other Saudi airports, where civilians congregate in large numbers. Among the victims of the most recent Riyadh airport attacks were many pilgrims on their way to Makkah.

The Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia because it plays a key role in the important coalition set up in 2015 to support the Yemeni government against their project. The rebels have spread violence and chaos, fragmented the state and impoverished the Yemeni people. Millions of civilians have been driven out of their homes — as refugees abroad, mostly in Saudi Arabia, or internally displaced, mostly in Marib province, which is under government control.

The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen has supported the Yemeni government in wresting control of Bab Al-Mandab back from the Houthis, defeating their latest effort to seize the waterway and threaten international shipping in the Red Sea.

The rebels have spread violence and chaos, fragmented the state and impoverished the Yemeni peopleDr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg 

The rebels have spread violence and chaos, fragmented the state and impoverished the Yemeni people

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg

The Houthis resent Saudi Arabia’s leadership role in........

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