play Live Sign upShow navigation menuplay Live Click here to searchsearchSign upNews|ConflictG7 foreign ministers demand Houthis halt strikes on Saudi ArabiaMinisters demand an end to maritime shipping attacks and urge Iran to stop arming the Yemeni group.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoHouthi supporters rally in Sanaa, Yemen, to celebrate advances by the group's forces along the Red Sea coast on September 18, 2026 [Adel al-Khader/Reuters]By AFP and ReutersPublished On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations have condemned what they called “unacceptable continued strikes” by Yemen’s Houthis against Saudi Arabia.
The ministers issued the statement on Monday following an informal meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the unacceptable continued strikes carried out by the Houthis in Yemen and against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the ministers of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States said in the statement.
The ministers urged the Houthis “to immediately cease all military actions, all threats and attacks against civilian shipping, and to return to the political process in good faith”.
They also called on Iran to stop arming and supporting the group, saying Tehran is in violation of past UN Security Council resolutions. They added that Iran’s backing of the Houthis constituted a dangerous pattern of escalation that risked undermining international trade and creating global instability.
The latest escalation in the Arab region’s most impoverished nation follows a period of relative calm that had largely held since the UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022 between the Iran-aligned group and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.
