During the years 2018 and 2019, a famous Yemeni Yael sculpture was exhibited in France and Japan. The goat was in the collection of Sheikh Hamad al-Thani, a cousin of the Emir of Qatar, and was allegedly smuggled out of Yemen illegally.

In 2021, Yemeni ambassador to UNESCO, Mohammed Jumia, said that the legitimate Yemeni government is taking the necessary legal steps to get back the looted Yemeni antiquities, including the Yemeni goat, which was exposed in the French media.