With More Than 70 Killings and Injuries, Conflicts Between Abd Al-Malek Al-Houthi and his Cousin Rise
Sources confirmed the rise of conflicts between Abd Al-Malek Al-Houthi, leader of Al-Houthi militias, and his cousin Abd Al-Azeem. Armed conflicts led to more than 70 killings and injuries from both sides during the past few days. Sources confirmed that the reason of these conflicts is a drug cargo confiscated by Abd Al-Azeem Al-Houthi, cousin of Abd Al-Malek Al-Houthi, as Abd Al-Azeem issued a statement accusing Abd Al-Malek’s militias with committing crimes without sanction.
Sources indicated that conflicts started with the arrest of a drug cargo by Abd Al-Azeem’s militants that was passing from Magaz – Saada to Iranian-supported militias led by Abd Al-Malek Al-Houthi. The cargo was intended to be sold to fund the militias’ military operations against Yemeni civilians and continuing coup against the legitimacy in addition to providing Yemeni youth fighting for the militias with a portion of it. This was followed by an attack by Abd Al-Azeem’s group against Abd Al-Malek’s where tens of militants were killed from both sides.
The group of Abd Al-Azeem Al-Houthi issued an angry statement calling all its followers to interfere and save citizens of Al-Humaidan in Saada from the coward aggression of the so-called “Ansar Allah Al-Houthis” whom the statement described as “criminals, thieves and racists” after one day of the rise of conflicts between the two groups.
The statement indicated that Al-Houthi militias sieged the area and bombed citizens’ houses randomly with all types of light, medium and heavy weapons causing houses to collapse over their residents without mercy. This bombard led to several killings, most of them were women, children and elderly. The statement called all followers of Abd Al-Azeem Al-Houthi to “mobilize and urgently interfere”.
It is noteworthy that conflicts inside Al-Houthi militias indicate the looseness of their power and the near collapse of the militias according to previous information including the conflict between Mahdi Al-Mashat and Abd Al-Malek Al-Houthi. This clearly exposes Al-Houthis’ policy as very fragile.
