The Yemeni Embassy in the UAE announced that Yemenia Airways will resume its flights to the UAE starting next week for the first time in about nine years. The Yemeni Embassy in Abu Dhabi said on its account on X, "We announce … that Yemenia Airways will resume its commercial flights to the United Arab Emirates starting next Monday, July 15, 2024, two flights per week." It indicated that the flights will be on Mondays and Fridays of each week from Aden to Dubai. After the war broke out in Yemen in 2015, direct flights from Yemen to the UAE stopped.
The Yemeni government has adopted a series of measures and facilitations aimed at completing the transfer of international organizations' headquarters from Houthi-controlled Sanaa to Aden. It has renewed its warning against international complacency regarding Houthi violations in humanitarian and relief work. Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak chaired a government meeting in Aden to evaluate the progress of humanitarian and developmental interventions by international and UN agencies. According to state media, the meeting highlighted ongoing violations by the Houthis against humanitarian and relief efforts, including the recent abduction of dozens of UN staff and international and local NGOs operating in Yemen.
Yesterday, the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, called on the President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Yemen to postpone the recent decisions taken by the bank against commercial and private banks in areas controlled by the Houthis until next August. In a letter sent to the Presidential Council, Grundberg expressed his concern about the recent decision taken by the Central Bank of Yemen to withdraw licenses from six banks, which will stop those banks from accessing foreign banks.
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 71 Palestinians in a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza on Saturday, the enclave's health ministry said, in an attack that Israel said targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif. It was unclear whether Deif was killed. "We are still checking and verifying the results of the strike," an Israeli military official said. Hamas said in a statement that Israeli claims it had targeted leaders of the group were false and aimed at justifying the attack, which was the deadliest Israeli attack in Gaza in weeks. The Israeli war on Gaza has killed more than 38,000 Palestinians since October last year, medical authorities in Gaza say.