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2025-01-26 Arabia
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Yemen’s Houthis unilaterally release 153 war detainees, Red Cross says
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”Please don’t hurt us, President Trump!” [IsraelTimes] Iran-backed rebels say they released ‘humanitarian’ prisoners, aiming ‘to build trust and establish a new phase’ in peace talks to end decade-long civil war
Did I just read about Trump releasing 2000-lb bombs to Israel? Why, yes I did
Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels unilaterally freed 153 war detainees Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said, one of several overtures in recent days to ease tensions after the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
Previous prisoner releases have been viewed as a means to jumpstart talks over permanently ending Yemen’s decade-long war, which began when the Houthis seized the country’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014.
However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
the release comes just after the Houthis detained another seven Yemeni workers from the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
, sparking anger from the world body.
Those released previously had been visited by Red Thingy staff in Sanaa and received medical checks and other assistance, the organization said while announcing the release.
Let us note that the Red Cross freely visited Houthi prisoners to check on them, but never even asked to visit those held in Gaza. Do I harp on this point? Then I shall continue to harp. The Houthis had signaled Friday night they planned a release of prisoners.
The Red Thingy said it "welcomes this unilateral release as another positive step towards reviving negotiations."
"This operation has brought much-needed relief and joy to families who have been anxiously waiting for the return of their loved ones," said Christine Cipolla, the ICRC’s head of delegation in Yemen. "We know that many other families are also waiting for their chance to be reunited. We hope that today’s release will lead to many more moments like this."
Abdul Qader al-Murtada, the head of the Houthis’ Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said in a statement carried by Houthi media that those released were "humanitarian cases’ that included the sick, maimed and the elderly.
"The goal of the initiative is to build trust and establish a new phase of serious and honest dealing," al-Murtada said.
The Red Thingy has helped oversee other prisoner releases, including one that saw some 1,000 prisoners swapped in 2020, over 800 detainees exchanged in 2023 and another release in 2024.
The rebels said earlier this week they would limit their attacks on ships in the Red Sea corridor and released the 25-member crew of the Galaxy Leader, a ship they seized back in November 2023, as the Gaza ceasefire took hold.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, killing tens of thousands more.
The Houthis’ attacks on shipping during the Israel-Hamas war have helped deflect attention from their problems at home. But they have faced casualties and damage from US-led Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s targeting the group for months now, as well as strikes by Israel.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
Yemen’s economy is in tatters, something that’s put increasing pressure on the Houthis and others in the conflict to potentially negotiate an end to the war.
A de facto ceasefire in the conflict, which drew in a Saudi-led coalition in 2015, has largely held for several years now even during the Houthi attacks over the Israel-Hamas war.
Yet the Houthis still conducted the raids that saw seven UN workers detained, likely alongside others. The rebels previously detained UN staffers, as well as individuals associated with the once-open US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, aid groups and civil society.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
late Friday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the seven, as well as all other UN workers held by the Houthis, some since 2021.
"The continued targeting of UN personnel and its partners negatively impacts our ability to assist millions of people in need in Yemen," he warned in a statement. "The Houthis must deliver on their previous commitments and act in the best interests of the Yemeni people and the overall efforts to achieve peace in Yemen."
The UN has halted work in Yemen, which provides food, medicine and other aid to the impoverished nation.
US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
separately has moved to reinstate a terrorism designation he made on the group late in his first term that had been revoked by president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ....
, potentially setting the stage for new tensions with the rebels.
Analysts have linked the newest UN detentions as being connected to the decision, though the Houthis themselves have yet to comment on them.
The rebels have been airing repeated programs on television channels they control parading people they describe as working with Western intelligence agencies or the Israelis. 
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