Governor of Marib, Sultan Al-Arada, said today a medical city will be established in Marib, which will include a university hospital linked to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheba Region. Al-Arada stressed - in his speech during the opening of the first medical conference organized by the College of Medicine at the University of Sheba Region in partnership with the Yemeni Board of Medical Specialties - that improving the health sector is a top priority for the government, which seeks to build a strong and sustainable health system capable of meeting the needs of citizens. According to reports, Marib city, under the control of Yemen's UN-recognized government, accommodates over 3 million people. The population in Marib has rapidly increased due to the continued displacement of people.
Yemen's Houthi group has said they had postponed the release of around 100 prisoners belonging to government forces that had previously been announced to take place on Saturday.A Houthi official said that the delay was because of "technical reasons", adding the release would take place at another time. The head of the Houthi Prisoner Affairs Committee, Abdul Qader al-Murtada, said on Friday that the group would release more than 100 prisoners in what he called "a unilateral humanitarian initiative". Since the war started in Yemen, the parties to the conflict captured and detained thousands of people, some of whom belong to the military and others are civilians.
Five people were killed and injured in a landmine explosion in Taiz on Friday. The Yemeni Landmine Observatory said in a statement on X that one citizen was killed and four others were injured in a landmine blast. The blast hit a bus in Dhubab district, western Taiz. The warring sides in Yemen have planted thousands of landmines since the war started in 2015.
Israeli ministers dismissed Friday's ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to cease its military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, vowing to continue fighting to free its hostages and defeat Hamas. Friday's ruling by the World Court was the latest in a series of steps in recent weeks that have deepened Israel's international isolation over its conduct of the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities.
