TML Learns Houthis Ordered Medical Staff To Sign War Readiness Pledges Weeks Before Escalation

Health workers in Sanaa say authorities required binding commitments that could reassign them from hospitals to field support roles as the regional war intensified

[SANAA] In Sanaa, the Houthis’ war posture isn’t just playing out in speeches and street rallies; it’s showing up on hospital paperwork. Weeks before the latest regional escalation, medical staff say they were ordered to sign binding “readiness pledges”—legal commitments that can pull them from wards and put them on immediate call for field support.

We were asked to sign legal commitments placing us on…