# Houthi drones and missiles strike Abu Dhabi after the Yemen war

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 17 January 2022 Houthi drones and missiles struck Abu Dhabi, killing civilians and hitting energy infrastructure, a completed blowback from the Yemen war [Mohamed bin Zayed](/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan)’s UAE had joined in 2015.

## Context

The Houthis attacked. UAE air defences and later US support responded. He was still crown prince, days from becoming ruler. The 2015 intervention is the parent war. He did not write the Houthi launch order.

Yemen 2015 is the parent. STC 2019 is the southern split.

The president of the United Arab Emirates is elected by the Federal Supreme Council of the seven emirates and is, in this case, also Ruler of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the armed forces. He does not write UNFCCC consensus texts by himself, IAEA operating licences, Israeli Knesset statutes, or UN panel reports.

## Evidence and sources

Emirates News Agency carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

It is not authorship of the Houthi launch.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 17 January 2022 Houthi strike on Abu Dhabi, independently reported, with civilian deaths.

Not established: that he ordered the Houthis, or a unique later oil-price coefficient from that morning.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Houthis launched. Air defences responded. He did not fire the drones.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Houthi drones and missiles strike Abu Dhabi after the Yemen war, not a later speech about Houthi drones and missiles strike Abu Dhabi after the Yemen war.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Houthi drones and missiles strike Abu Dhabi after the Yemen war on 2022-01-17 is not a licence to treat every later Emirates News Agency communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Houthi drones and missiles strike Abu Dhabi after the Yemen war into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government had joined the Yemen war the Houthis answered. The Houthis launched. Air defences responded. He did not fire the drones. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemen-houthis-abu-dhabi-attack-2022-01-17/
- https://www.wam.ae/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-houthi-attacks-2022