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A Yemeni diplomat based in London has reported that the Saudi regime continues to ignore Saudi pilots held captive by Sana’a, despite their repeated appeals for release.
In a recent post on the platform “X,” Yemeni academic and political figure Ahmed Al-Moayyad stated that the Saudi regime remains indifferent to the fate of its prisoners of war—particularly the pilots whose aircraft were shot down—despite having waged war on Yemen for seven years.
Al-Moayyad added that this neglect reflects a disregard for the lives of Saudi soldiers and exposes the regime’s ongoing hostility toward Yemen—its land and its people. He noted that Riyadh appears to prefer leaving its soldiers in captivity rather than taking a single step toward a peace process it may one day pursue.
In March 2020, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, offered to release one of the captured Saudi pilots along with four Saudi army officers in exchange for the release of all Palestinian detainees affiliated with Hamas currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
However, Riyadh rejected the offer at the time, a move that many observers interpreted as evidence of the Saudi regime’s behind-the-scenes complicity with the Israeli occupation—at the expense of its own captured forces.
