Iran-backed Houthis to declare a "State of Emergency"

The Iran-backed Houthis are preparing to declare a state of emergency, aimed at obliging citizens of all ages to go to fight with them. Yemeni sources in the capital, Sanaa said.

The sources, who preferred not to be mentioned, said that the head of the so-called political council, Mahdi Al-Mashat and his office manager, Ahmed Hamed, put the final touches on a law called the “emergency law”, which may come to light soon, forcing everyone who has reached the age of fourteen years to go to the battlefronts.

The sources pointed out that one of the provisions of the law, which they described as racist, obliges every Yemeni citizen to donate half of his property for what they called the war effort, noting that it is new ways devised by the Houthis to loot the property of the Yemenis.

The sources considered that the so-called "State of Emergency" comes in light of the complete reluctance of the Yemeni people to respond to Houthi calls for mobilization, which are suffering from major setbacks on the fronts.

Last Wednesday, the Political Council, the highest political body of the Houthi, announced a campaign to mobilize more fighters in conjunction with the announcement of the UN envoy and his deputy to launch political talks next week to stop the war in Yemen.