The Council of Arab Interior Ministers included the group in the list of terrorism
Coinciding with the Houthi militia’s escalation of its terrorist acts inside Yemen and neighboring countries, the Council of Arab Interior Ministers approved yesterday (Saturday) its inclusion in terrorist groups, while the Yemeni army announced that it had repelled the militia’s attack south of Ma’rib with the support of the fighters of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy.
Meanwhile, the coalition announced that, on Friday and Saturday, it carried out 35 targeting operations of the Houthi militia on the fronts of Ma’rib and Hajjah, explaining in a tweet broadcast by “SPA” that the targeting operations led to the destruction of 22 military vehicles and inflicted the militias with human losses estimated by Yemeni field sources with dozens of dead and wounded.
And the Yemeni military media reported that the forces, backed by the popular resistance, broke (Saturday) an attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia on military sites south of Ma’rib Governorate.
And the media center of the Yemeni armed forces quoted a military source as saying, “The Houthi militia fled after many of its members were killed or wounded, in addition to the destruction of its vehicles by artillery shelling.”
According to the military source, the Yemeni army forces recovered two vehicles with their equipment left by the militia members before they fled, while the fighters of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy on the same front targeted militia reinforcements with two raids, which resulted in the destruction of vehicles and the killing of all those on board.
In the same field context, eight members of the Houthi militia were killed and others were wounded in confrontations with the National Army forces north of the city of Taiz, according to the Yemeni official media.
Saba news agency quoted a military source as saying that the National Army forces attacked militia sites, and the attack resulted in the death of eight members, including a sniper, who was entrenched in the Kabab Building on Al-Arbaeen Street, with others wounded, while the coalition aircraft targeted Houthi sites in the “Al-Madradat Ghorab” area, west of the city itself.
With the escalation of terrorist acts by the Houthi militias, the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers adopted the classification of the Houthi group as a terrorist group and included them in the list of terrorist entities on the Arab black list of perpetrators, masterminds and financiers of terrorist acts.
The General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers said in a statement that the classification of the Houthi militia as a terrorist entity, and its inclusion on the Arab blacklist, comes as a result of the violations it committed against the Yemeni population, including killing, displacement, imprisonment and torture, since its control of the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2014. , as well as violations against neighboring countries and the international community, including the repeated cross-border terrorist attacks targeting civilians and infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The statement clarified that the inclusion of the Houthis in the Arab blacklist of the perpetrators, masterminds and financiers of terrorist acts by the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers comes as a result of the efforts of the Arab police and security services, which realized the danger of these militias, and the consequences of the spread of their actions and poisonous ideas, a few days after the issuance of the Security Council resolution 2624 as a terrorist group, as well as the request of the Arab Parliament Union to list the Houthis as a terrorist group.
On the humanitarian front, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported an increase in the number of dead and wounded in Yemen with the increase in violence, with dire consequences for millions of children and families.
UNICEF Representative in Yemen Philip Doamel said in a statement yesterday (Saturday) that reports indicate that at least 47 children were killed or injured in multiple locations during only the first two months of this year.
“Following the intensification of conflict in 2021, violence continues this year, and as usual, children are the first to suffer and the most,” the statement said.
In its statement, UNICEF called on the parties to the conflict – and those who can influence them – to protect civilians wherever they are, and to preserve the safety and well-being of children and ensure their protection at all times. “Violence, misery and grief have become commonplace in Yemen, with dire consequences for millions of children and families.”
The United Nations stressed that the time has come to reach a sustainable political solution “so that Yemenis and their children can live in the peace they deserve.”