The Houthi militia announced on Monday the death of their most dangerous leader and one of their most prominent founders who worked to establish the group for decades.
Mahdi al-Mashat sent a telegram of condolences to the family of Yahya al-Shami on the death of Major General Yahya al-Shami, head of the Council of Elders of the People of the House, as he is known in the media, who worked to establish the first nucleus of the Houthi cells during the decades of the seventies, eighties and nineties of the last century.
The announcement of al-Shami's death comes only three days after the burial of his son Zakaria al-Shami, one of the Houthi leaders who turned against the army and the division and joined the Houthi militia and pledged to kill Hadi in 2014.
Sources confirmed that the Houthis postponed the announcement and burial process until it absorbed the anger of the Sana'a wing, which is gradually being removed from the positions in the state by means of assassination and dismissal, the last of which was the dismissal of Dr. Abdul Hadi Al-Shami from the school book printing presses and the replacement of Amer Al-Jabal in his position as he was from the province of Saada.
Neither the Houthi Sheba Agency nor its Security Information Center published the news of the death, and the Presidential Office of the Republic was satisfied with the Houthi militia, run by the influential leader Ahmed Hamid, to publish the news of Al-Mashat's condolences to the family of Al-Shami.
A wide ambiguity prevails over the causes of the death of a large and prominent group of Houthi militias since mid-March, such as Sultan Zaben, Zakaria al-Shami and Yahya al-Shami.
Activists had revealed that al-Shami and a number of Houthi leaders, including the head of the coup government and ministers, clashed with each other after their opposition to some of the ideas that Iran insists on implementing in Yemen, and they were divided between supporters and opponents, which caused the killing of the coup engineer’s son and wounding his mother, which led to her death. Al-Shami has been in intensive care for several weeks.
Observers say that the Houthi militia are pursuing their hobby of assassination opponents after dispensing with them, in a context reminiscent of the movement's behavior since their establishment with their successive allies.
The militia insist on consecrating the abhorrent dynastic ideology and seek to completely monopolize power by eliminating all those who participated or colluded with them from the other political and tribal components.
The news of al-Shami's death comes in the context of the ongoing assassination operations among Houthi members in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, where the Houthi leader, Hassan Zaid bin Yahya, who was appointed by the militia as governor of Abyan governorate, was assassinated at his home in the capital.
The two wings of Sana'a and Ibb were subjected to many assassinations that affected the senior leaders in the wing, including Dr. Ahmed Sharaf Al-Din, Dr. Abdul-Malik Al-Mutawakkil, jdban, Hassan Zaid, Yahya Al-Shami, Zakaria Al-Shami, and others from the wing of the fall.
The militia conflict is expanding
The internal conflict between the wings of the Houthi militia has expanded in the wake of a regional race between the “dynastic families” of the Hashemites of Sana’a, Ibb and Saada, over power, wealth and the acquisition of ministries and state institutions in the coup’s government that is not recognized internationally, and disputes that included the end of conflict over land and real estate.
The conflict between the Houthi extremist wing emerging from Saada and the dynastic wing of the families of the remnants of imams, who ruled northern Yemen for centuries, is the latest conflict ever in the hierarchy of the closed hierarchical organization.
This conflict expanded in the wake of the announced transformation of the Houthi coup into the bosom of the Iranian proxy in the region, with a formal diplomatic exchange, coinciding with the pursuit campaigns and mysterious assassinations of many leaders of Sana'a.
The assassination of the Secretary-General of the Al-Haq Party, the Houthi political lever, and the Minister of Youth and Sports in the government of the coup called Hassan Zaid, in the heart of the security square in Sana'a late last October, was only the latest incident of a long series of assassinations that affected Muhammad al-Mutawakel, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani and Ahmed Sharaf al-Din And dozens of others from the Sanaa wing.
The Houthis removed through assassinations the names that constitute an overwhelming presence among the Hashemite families in Sana'a in favor of the uniqueness of Houthi leaders coming from Saada with influence and security, military and civil decisions, such as “Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi”, “Abdul Karim Al-Houthi” and “Ahmed Hamed”.
Desire for revenge
Yemeni sources close to the Houthi conflict circle in Sanaa said that the dynastic families in the capital are feeling increasingly dangerous by being stripped of their historical interests by force of arms and are more aware than at any time of the development of the war by the bloc of extremists coming from the "Saada Mountains" and associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia and the policy of exclusivity in government. .
The sources pointed out that effective leaders in the Sana'a wing have repeatedly shown a feeling of "unfairness and a desire for revenge", even in public councils for qat from a war of eradication rather than exclusion only, that the Houthis wage in Saada through the assassinations of the most present in the historical Hashemite identity.
