Civilians and infrastructure in Yemen are just Houthi human shields

A senior Houthi leader said that his group has nothing to fear from vital targets that may be hit as a reaction when carrying out strikes targeting Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates.

Mohammad Ali Al Houthi, a member of the unrecognized Presidency Council, said in a speech a few days ago that they are not afraid of airstrikes.

His boastful statement opens the door to many questions about the infrastructure, all government and private projects and interests on the one hand, and the lives of the civilian citizens of the Yemeni people on the other hand, that they do not represent anything or any importance to the Houthi militias, especially since their biggest goal is to target the Gulf states in order to serve Iran to achieve its goals in the region.

Perhaps it is not the first time that Houthi leaders have publicly stated that the lives of the Yemeni people, their children and women, do not pay attention to them, because for them they "are not believer" in their extremist terrorist ideas saturated with violence and lack of recognition of the homeland in the first place, while they only care about power and wealth.

Recently, the Houthis have begun to renege on their commitments stipulated in the truce, especially as they still refuse to end the siege on Taiz and. At the same time, they escalated the recruitment of children and directed the resources of the port of Hodeidah from oil derivatives to mobilize fighters and weapons. They also displaced minorities such as Bahais and Jews and continued to kidnap and torture journalists.

No evidence needed for the world to ensure that the Houthis are carrying out Iran’s orders against the Arab Gulf states. The spokesman for the Houthi, only speaks through Iranian channels.

Recently, a Houthi cell busted by the joint forces on the western coast of Yemen admitted smuggling weapons from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas to the ports of Hodeidah under the supervision of the Iranian "Revolutionary Guard", in a flagrant violation of international law and Security Council resolutions related to the Yemeni crisis.

The Houthis seek to destabilize the security of the Gulf states and threaten the shipping lanes in Bab al-Mandab. The year 2021 witnessed a significant increase in Houthi strikes, especially against Saudi Arabia and UAE, in an attempt to provoke the Gulf countries to carry out military operations that the Houthis exploit to make propaganda at the expense of the Yemeni people.