Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Yemen, and based on its data, in the Yemen chapter (in Arabic and English) of the 2025 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Care in the Crosshairs identified 48 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Yemen in 2025. 17 health workers were arrested, and health facilities were violently raided or searched 12 times and damaged on at least nine occasions.

Health worker arrests and detentions and health facility raids by Houthi forces increased from April onwards. Damage to and the destruction of health care facilities increased, and health worker killings and injuries continued. In 2025, conflict parties’ use of explosive weapons that impacted health care surged, with aircraft and drone strikes accounting for 26% of all reported incidents. This ended a 20 month period since July 2023 during which no air strikes affecting health facilities had been reported.

Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.