Tihama in a new confrontation with the Imamate .. "The Promise of the Hereafter" plunders the land of Al-Zaraniq
English - Thursday 15 September 2022 الساعة 03:52 pm
Hodeidah, NewsYemen, private:
“Are we Muslims, Jews, or prisoners?” Likewise, a young man from the Beit al-Faqih district, southeast of Hodeidah, asks in a video clip that spread on social media, as he reviews his colleagues who have been imprisoned with him for 15 days inside al-Hussainiya prison, which is affiliated with Iran.
The video clip shows about 45 people, including an elderly person, who have been in prison for 15 days as a result of their refusal to confiscate their lands by the Iranian arm, as part of a recent military campaign launched by militias in the eastern and southern districts of Hodeidah to loot agricultural lands in Tihama .
The campaign met with popular resistance by the sons of Al-Zaraniq in the coastal villages of Al-Qusra in the Beit Al-Faqih district, to which the militias responded by violently storming these villages through a military campaign that included 30 groups carrying dozens of gunmen, who started shooting indiscriminately and arresting about 100 residents of the area.
The Houthi leaders who are leading the looting campaign claim that these areas are state land, which is denied by the people who assert that they have documents proving that the land belonged to them for decades.
Al-Houthi leaders’ allegations that the lands belong to the state are due to their reliance on a fatwa issued by Imam Ahmed Hamid al-Din about 70 years ago, considering Hodeidah entirely as land belonging to the Mutawakkiliya state, as part of a policy of revenge practiced by the imams against the Tihama due to the resistance and rejection of its tribes to their rule, the most famous of which is the fierce resistance of the Zaraniq tribes.
According to the takfiri thought that the imams of the Zaydi sect followed with their opponents, dealing with any region that resisted their rule was considered a "house of war", meaning that it is a land of "infidels" that is plundered and snatched from the hands of its sons in favor of the imam after victory over it, and it is often distributed to the leaders of his armies. or its officials.
The fierce campaign by the Houthi militia against the sons of Tihama comes just days after the military parade that it carried out in the city of Hodeidah under the name “The Promise of the Hereafter,” in which the leader of the group thanked the “honorable sons of Hodeidah.” Today, this thanks is carried on bulldozers guarded by military crews for looting their land.
