Yemenis: The Houthi militia has fulfilled the conditions to be classified as a terrorist organization
English - Wednesday 16 February 2022 الساعة 08:05 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The terrorist Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen, has fulfilled all the conditions eligible to be placed at the top of the list of terrorism, but there is international evasion and procrastination, which explains the presence of complicity in protecting the Houthis, and only looking at Yemenis who are below the line of poverty, hunger, killing and disease.
The Yemenis stressed that the Houthis are tampering with the country and the people in a brutal manner, and they are practicing a systematic policy of starvation against the people, and that the time has come to hold them accountable.
International complicity
The international community and observers, by not putting the Houthis on the list of terrorism, justify that this designation will lead to starvation in the Houthi-controlled areas of the country by reducing aid and the work of the private sector.
Meanwhile, the terrorist Houthi militia loots, according to international and local reports and organizations’ recognition, humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, provided by organizations, donors, and relief and humanitarian agencies, one of the sources of funding for what they call the war effort by supporting their fighters on the fronts and areas they control.
Hunger reigns supreme
The Houthi militia practices a policy of starvation against the Yemeni people through its control of the port of Hodeidah and Saleef and the imposition of customs outlets on relief trucks at the entrances to the unliberated governorates, which leads to an exponential increase in the prices of food commodities. It is impossible for the citizens whose salaries the militia suspended seven years ago to keep pace with these prices.
Violations against relief aid varied between looting trucks loaded with food and medicine, bombing warehouses of UN organizations, especially in Hodeidah, as well as bombing ships and trucks loaded with aid, killing a number of their drivers, in addition to preventing field teams from humanitarian organizations from carrying out their work and detaining employees of these organizations and preventing them from reaching To the governorates to carry out their humanitarian tasks and put many obstacles that paralyze the work of humanitarian organizations in Yemen.
The US administration of Joe Biden had courted the Houthis by canceling their designation as a terrorist, on the pretext that the country might enter the clutches of widespread famine, and the hope was that the Houthis would reduce their attacks to avoid pouring oil on the fire. Instead, they targeted an Aramco oil distribution facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 22, and have recently intensified their attacks targeting Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Emirati efforts to reclassify Al Houthi as a terrorist
The UAE moved to include Al-Houthi on the US terrorist list after the attack with drones and ballistic missiles on civilian facilities and areas, which led the Biden administration to consider reclassifying the Houthis as a terrorist organization, or that it is under study.
Recently, after Emirati efforts and international condemnation of the terrorist attack on the UAE, the Biden administration confirmed that the decision to remove the group from the terrorist list was an inappropriate decision, as it gave a signal to the terrorist organization that it is able to further its terrorist and subversive project after the United States recognized it as an international actor. Evidence for this is that Houthi attacks against targets in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf increased significantly after their designation as terrorists
