The General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers has approved the classification of the Houthi group as a terrorist group and its inclusion 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 explained that the inclusion of the Houthis in the Arab blacklist 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 poisonous actions and ideas, a few days after the issuance of Security Council Resolution 2624 as a terrorist group, as well as the request of the Arab Parliament Union to include the Houthis as a group. terrorist.
On the ground, the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced that, on Friday and Saturday, it carried out 35 targeting operations of the Houthi militia on the fronts of Marib and Hajjah, explaining in a tweet broadcast by “SPA” that the targeting operations led to the destruction of 22 military vehicles and the militias inflicting human losses, which Yemeni field sources estimated with dozens of dead and wounded. .
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