The United Nations officially released on Thursday the final report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen mandated by security council resolution 2342. The report accuses Houthis of executing their former ally President Ali Abdullah Saleh and "crushing" his supporters in order to tighten their grip on Sana’a. Yemen’s financial system is broken, according to the report, because Houthis are controlling Sanaa Central Bank, collecting taxes, extorting businesses and seizing assets in the name of the war effort. It also accused them of deploying improvised sea mines in the Red Sea, which represent a hazard for commercial shipping and sea lines of communication that could remain for as long as 6 to 10 years, threatening imports to Yemen and access for humanitarian assistance through the Red Sea ports. Iran is in non-compliance with paragraph 14 of resolution 2216 (2015) in that it failed to take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of short-range ballistic missiles, field storage tanks for liquid bipropellant oxidizer for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles to Houthis, the report stated. "After nearly three years of conflict, Yemen, as a State, has all but ceased to exist," the panel of experts said in their 344-page report. "Instead of a single State there are warring statelets." In the north, the Houthis are working to consolidate their hold on Sana ’a and much of the highlands after a five-day street battle in the city that ended with the execution of their one-time ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, on 4 December, the report added. In the south, the Government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was weakened by the defection of several governors to the newly formed Southern Transition Council. Regarding the violations of coup militias, the report said that Houthis have summarily executed individuals, detained individuals solely for political or economic reasons and systematically destroyed the homes of their perceived enemies. The Houthis also routinely obstruct humanitarian access and the distribution of aid.