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| UN Security Council calls for member states to beef up Houthi arms embargo efforts |
| 2025-11-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] The UN Security Council calls for an end to cross-border and maritime attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and urges member states to beef up efforts to implement an arms embargo against them. In a resolution renewing sanctions against the group, the Council condemned the attacks and demanded an end to all such actions, “including those against infrastructure and civilian targets.” The text was adopted in a 13-0 vote, with permanent members China and Russia abstaining. Targeted sanctions were extended until November 14, 2026, including a freezing of assets and travel bans currently in place against about 10 people, most of them high-ranking Houthi officials and the group as a whole. The text says that sanctions could now affect those who launch cross-border attacks from Yemeni territory using ballistic and cruise missile technology, or attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden. Member states were asked to “increase efforts to combat the smuggling of weapons and components via land and sea routes, to ensure implementation of the targeted arms embargo.” The Houthis have controlled large swathes of the country, including the capital Sanaa, for more than a decade, and have signaled they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. The Houthis — whose slogan calls for “Death to America, Death to Israel, [and] a Curse on the Jews” — began attacking Israel and maritime traffic in November 2023, a month after the October 7 Hamas massacre, which sparked the war against Hamas in Gaza. |
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