...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias have escalated their military operations in Hodeidah by shelling the positions army positions and residential villages and committing more massacres against unarmed civilians.
Two siblings were killed on Sunday while their father survived in Durayhimi district, south Hodeidah, after the earth-shattering kaboom of Houthi mines planted in the area.
Local sources said a landmine planted by the militias, before fleeing the area, went
kaboom!in Qadba village in the southern outskirts of Durayhimi, killing Yahya Mohammed Ali Omar, 10, and his sister Najwa, 11.
This incident is added to the series of crimes committed by Houthi militias against innocent civilians in Hodeidah and the West Coast after transforming cities, villages, farms and public and sub-roads to minefields before fleeing them.
These mines lead to the death of civilians, mostly women and kiddies, on a daily basis.
This incident comes one day after the death of a woman and the injury of others from the same family as a result of Houthi shelling on a residential neighborhood in Hays district, south Hodeidah, according to local sources.
"Houthi militias have fired heavy artillery shells at civilian houses in Hays district, one of which fell at Mohammed Naji Hamid’s house, killing Wafa Ahmed Ghaleb Jamal and wounding Salama Hassan Hammadi, Munir Abdullah Salem, in addition to the children, Qaboos and Raad Mohammed Naji, whose injuries were critical," sources explained.