Al-Houthi prevents philanthropists from providing aid and stops Ramadan Iftar initiatives
English - Thursday 14 April 2022 الساعة 09:51 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
The terrorist Houthi militia prevented philanthropists in Sanaa and its areas of control from providing aid to poor and needy families and the displaced, in conjunction with its suspension of Ramadan Iftar initiatives.
Local residents told NewsYemen that the Houthi militia continues to refuse to allow merchants and philanthropists to distribute zakat and food aid to poor and needy families since the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
They added that the militia prevented the well-known merchant, "Haider Fahim", from distributing food aid to about 15,000 poor families in Sana'a and Hodeidah, which he distributes annually.
They pointed out that the Houthi militia demanded those in charge of the Fahim Trading Group give it the value of the aid, in order to distribute it to the lists that include the names of affiliated and loyal elements.
Prior to the current month of Ramadan, the Houthi militia prevented the Al-Salahi commercial group from providing aid to hundreds of poor families in the city of Radaa in the Al-Bayda Governorate, which is provided annually to them under the guidance of the Houthi leader, Nastan Abu Nishtan, head of the so-called Houthi “General Authority for Zakat”, with the aim of handing it over to them in An effort to seize aid and alms and deprive the poor and needy of them.
The militia created an armed body specialized in levies, which it called the “General Authority for Zakat.” During the past few months, the commission carried out raids and incursions into the centers and institutions of the private commercial sector through armed crews and elements of the militia's intelligence services.
One of the philanthropists of money and business in Sanaa, who preferred not to be named, told NewsYemen that most of the philanthropists of the merchants refuse to hand over any aid to the “Houthi Zakat Authority” because they believe that they have the legitimate and legal right to provide the aid they see to the poor and needy families. And their personal supervision of the distribution process has hand in hand.
He attributed their refusal to the fact that there are fears that the militia will distribute the aid they finance exclusively to its leaders and loyal elements and the families of its dead, while the needy and poor families are deprived of aid in their policy of starving and subjugating Yemenis. The group is exploiting the provision of food aid to some of the “marginalized” families with the aim of mobilizing more fighters in its ranks and engaging them in its absurd battles.
In this context, the Houthi militia stopped the activities of Ramadan Iftar initiatives in Sana'a, which are provided to fasting people and poor and needy families, and forced their financiers and those in charge of them to provide them to their members who are based on what they called "charity kitchens".
Most of the citizens in Sanaa and the areas under the control of the Houthis suffer from harsh living and humanitarian conditions due to the lack of income and the looting of their salaries by the Houthi militias for nearly eight years.
