Iran-backed Houthis set up training camps for women

The Iran-backed Houthis have set up a number of training camps in the Yemen capital, Sanaa, to a new process of attracting girls and young women, with the aim of recruiting them into their women's battalions called "Zeinabiyat". Informed sources told Khabar Agency.

The Houthi militia assigned the tasks of recruiting girls to cultural supervisors who call them "Mujahideen" and leaders of their armed women's faction, the "Zeinabiyat", most of whom belong to the Hashemite families. The sources said.

The Houthi leadership selected a number of cultural supervisors and others within the sectarian the "Zeinabiyat" and assigned them the task of convincing mothers and housewives in several neighborhoods in the capital of the importance of the role of young girls at this stage and the need to enroll them in training courses for camps designated to teach them misconceptions within the framework of sectarian mobilization, brainwashing and ideological descent, and then subject them to recruitment, physical, security and military training to work for the benefit of them.

According to the sources, the militia see women in their areas of control as the weakest group and believe that they are easily deceived and persuaded to enroll their daughters in the ranks of the "Zeinabiyat" brigades.

In 2017, the Houthis established the "Zeinabiyat" brigades armed with an Iranian ideology, which is a women's military faction set up by the Houthis and used in the operations of suppressing women, abusing and arresting them in any demonstrations against the militia, raiding the homes of their opponents, terrorizing families and looting properties, in addition to to torture the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the militia.