Freed Houthi prisoners stand as they wait to board an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-chartered plane at Aden Airport, in Aden, Yemen on April 14, 2023. (Photo by Fawaz Salman/Reuters)





A freed prisoner gestures while holding a child after arriving at Sanaa Airport on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-chartered plane, amid a prisoner swap between two sides in the Yemen conflict, in Sanaa, Yemen on April 14, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Freed houthi prisoners upon arrival at Sana'a airport on the third day of a prisoner swap in Sana'a, Yemen, 16 April 2023 Yemen's warring parties began on 14 April a three-day exchange of 887 prisoners. The Houthis have agreed to release 181 detainees, including Saudis and Sudanese soldiers who fought alongside Yemeni government forces, in exchange for 706 prisoners held by the Yemeni government, under the UN and ICRC-brokered prisoner swap deal reached last March in Switzerland. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA/EFE)





Houthi prisoners arrive to Sanaa airport, Saturday, April 15, 2023. An exchange of more than 800 prisoners linked to Yemen's long-running war them began Friday, the International Committee for the Red Cross said. The three-day operations will see flights transport prisoners between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's capital, Sanaa, long held by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. (Photo by Hani Mohammed/AP Photo)





Freed Houthi activist Samira Marish is greeted after arriving on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-chartered plane at Sanaa Airport, amid a prisoner swap between two sides in the Yemen conflict, in Sanaa, Yemen on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-chartered plane carrying freed prisoners lands at Sanaa Airport, amid a prisoner swap, in Sanaa, Yemen on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





People perform the Baraa dance at Sanaa Airport, amid a prisoner swap between two sides in the Yemen conflict, in Sanaa, Yemen on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Children and women wait for freed prisoners upon their arrival on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-chartered plane at Sanaa Airport, amid a prisoner swap between two sides in the Yemen conflict, in Sanaa, Yemen on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





This image released by ANSAR ALLAH HOUTHI MEDIA OFFICE, shows the aftermath of a deadly stampede in Sanna, Yemen Wednesday, April 19, 2023. A crowd apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen’s capital late Wednesday, according to witnesses and Houthi rebel officials. (Photo by ANSAR ALLAH HOUTHI MEDIA OFFICE via AP Photo)





Gunmen from Yemen's Abyan governorate attend a ceremony for the release of military commander in government forces Major General Faisal Rajab (not pictured) by Huthi rebels in Sanaa on April 30, 2023. Yemeni rebels and government forces have in April 2023 freed scores of detainees in prisoner exchanges, boosting hopes for an end to their protracted war. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)





A woman embraces her relative upon arrival at the Sanaa International Airport in Sanna on May 14, 2023, after being evacuated from Sudan. Hundreds of people have been killed and nearly a million displaced in the war between the army and rival paramilitaries embroiled in a power struggle 18 months after a military coup derailed Sudan's transition to civilian rule. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)





People tear an Israeli flag as they demonstrate to denounce the recent Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen on May 14, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Technical vessels are seen by the decrepit Safer tanker on Monday, June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. Safer has posed an environmental threat since 2015, as it decayed and threatened to spill its contents of 1.14 million barrels into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. In May, the United Nations announced that the first step of the ship's salvage process had begun, with the arrival of a ship that would remove atmospheric oxygen from the ship's oil chambers. (Photo by Osamah Abdulrahman/AP Photo)





Media members hold to a platform as they are lifted to the deck of the decaying FSO Safer oil tanker, off the coast of the western Hodeidah province, Yemen, 12 June 2023. The UN has secured insurance for the FSO Safer oil tanker after it began salvage work on the beleaguered vessel which carries 1.14 million barrels of crude oil, posing a serious risk to the environment off the coast of Yemen due to the possibility of it breaking up or catching fire, according to a press release by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The insurance will cover the cost of any loss or damage that might occur during the transfer of oil from the FSO Safer to another tanker. The 47-year-old vessel has not undergone maintenance since 2015 due to Yemen's war. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA)





A boy jumps into the Red Sea near Yemen's port of Ras Issa in the contested western province of Hodeida on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)





Yemeni Muslims wait at the Sana'a airport before leaving for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, in Sana'a, Yemen, 17 June 2023. The first batch of over 270 Yemeni Hajj pilgrims has left for the holiest place for Muslims in Mecca from Sana'a airport for the first time in eight years after Yemen’s warring parties agreed to provide flights for Muslim pilgrims from the Houthis-held Sana'a to the holy places in Saudi Arabia. Over 24,000 Muslim pilgrims from Yemen are expected to participate in the annual pilgrimage to Mecca this year, which is set to begin on 26 June. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA)





Yemeni grooms dance during a mass wedding ceremony in Sana'a, Yemen, 18 June 2023. A philanthropist has funded the mass wedding for 34 couples. Mass weddings in Yemen are mostly funded and organized by charity organizations and philanthropists to make it easier for people, who couldn’t otherwise afford one, due to high dowries and the high ceremony costs amid a deteriorating economy in war-ridden Yemen. Upon strict Muslim traditions practiced in Yemen, men and women have their celebrations separately. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA/EFE)





People rally to denounce the burning of the Koran in Sweden and the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, in Sanaa, Yemen on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Men hold firearms as people demonstrate against the desecration of the Koran in Denmark, in Sanaa, Yemen on July 24, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





A flock of sheep and goats is led by shepherds to pastures at a mountain village on the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen, 27 July 2023. At least eight million sheep and goats from about 470,000 pastoralist and agro pastoralist households across Yemen will be treated and vaccinated over the two years 2023 and 2024, in an effort to reduce livestock losses, improve production efficiency, and household income generation amid an acute food insecurity, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported. Livestock production in Yemen is a main income-generating activity for many rural and poor households. Yemen remains one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world with over 17 million people out of its 30-million population are food insecure due to a combination of prolonged conflicts and economic crisis. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA)