Abdulbasit Al-Qaidi, undersecretary of Yemen’s Ministry of Information, blamed the Houthi militia for the war and destruction in Yemen. He said the Houthis’ coup against the national dialogue’s outcomes and their seizure of Sanaa and state institutions, followed by expansion to Aden, led late President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to ask the Saudi-led coalition supporting legitimacy to intervene. In remarks to Al-Jazeera, he described the fight as existential and aimed at restoring the state.