Once again, in conjunction with the war being waged by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people, the Houthi militia is moving forward in mobilizing fighters and calling for recruitment and joining its ranks under the pretext of supporting the Palestinian people and fighting alongside them. This is what the militia has continued to do, exploiting occasions and events in order to serve its project and achieve its goals, whether through recruitment or fundraising.

The Houthi militia has been working to exploit the Yemeni people’s love for the Palestinians and their sympathy for their cause in order to use this to serve its agenda, and to mobilize the largest possible number of young people and children and recruit them into its ranks, especially with the continuing decline in the number of fighters in the militia’s ranks, either due to the killing of many of them in the battles it ignites between From time to time, or because many of them fled the fronts and returned to their areas.

Exploiting events:

As is its custom in exploiting events, the Houthi militia was active in exploiting the current events in Gaza and mobilized its leaders and supervisors in the governorates under its control with the aim of organizing new recruitment campaigns in the villages and regions of nine Governorates, including Sana’a and its countryside, Ibb, Dhamar, Hudaydah, Amran, Hajjah, And Mahwit.

Because of the reluctance of Yemeni society to provide the militia with fighters because many of the people became bored with the militia’s speeches and realized that their slogans and tricks were false, this militia resorted to exploiting these events by forming the so-called “Supreme Committee for Supporting Al-Aqsa,” from which other committees emerged on The level of those areas to undertake the tasks of supervising mobilization to the battle fronts, or to fight the Jews as the militia claims, and within what it called the “Brigades of Tofan Al-Aqsa.”

According to what media sources reported, the Houthi militia has assigned responsibility for mobilization to a group of Houthi leaders in various governorates. The mission in Sanaa and its countryside was undertaken by the group’s leaders, Khaled al-Medani and Saif al-Hashimi, and in Hodeidah, the same mission was entrusted to the leader, Muhammad Quhaim. Likewise, the responsibility in al-Mahwit was entrusted to Commander Ali al-Khatib, in Amran the mission was entrusted to Commander Sajjad Hamza, in Raymah to Commander Muhammad al-Nahari, in Ibb Governorate to Commander Rakan al-Naqeeb, in Hajjah to Commander Ibrahim al-Hamli, and in Dhamar to Commander Ahmed al-Dhurani, According to what informed sources said.

Societal reluctance:

It is reported that the Houthi militia has failed miserably in attracting young people and adding new recruits in most of the neighborhoods and districts of the capital, Sana’a, and in villages and districts of the Sana’a countryside governorate and other areas during the past three weeks since the start of the new campaign that was directed to be implemented to mobilize to the fronts, which prompted senior Militia leaders have once again resorted to request from some tribal leaders, especially in the areas of the so-called "Sana'a Ring", in order to help them succeed in recruitment campaigns after luring them with money and assuming positions, to confront this societal and tribal reluctance to calls for mobilization.

According to media sources, during the past few days, Houthi leaders in the Sanaa countryside and other areas under their control have held a series of meetings with notables, some tribal leaders, and local officials, claiming to be mobilizing to support Palestine, which politicians described as falling within the militia’s repeated exploitation of the Palestinian issue, benefiting from it to strengthen its fronts through forced recruitment campaigns, in addition to making money through levies imposed on the population.

The sources also confirmed that the Houthi militia failed in the governorates of Hodeidah, Dhamar, and Ibb to recruit the people of districts and villages belonging to several Directorates, including Zabid, Al-Tuhayta, Al-Jarrahi, Jabal Ras, Al-Hada, Al-Manar, Ans, Jibleh, Mudhaykhirah, and Dhu Al-Sifal. These sources added that the militia's followers tried a few days ago to use all means of pressure and intimidation against families in those areas in order to accept the inclusion of their children on the fronts, but they were met with widespread rejection.

Exploitation of marginalized groups:

The societal rejection of the Houthi militia’s demands and the lack of response to them prompted the militia to change its plan and go directly towards recruiting marginalized people after it failed to convince the tribes, especially what are known as the “the tribes surrounding Sanaa,” where this militia from these tribes met with widespread refusal to recruit their sons and their lack of response with the Houthi mobilizations under the pretext of preparing to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, following the ongoing Israeli aggression since the seventh of last October, with the exception of some poor and helpless families in society, who responded to the militia’s demands under the pressure of the need for money or as a result of the threat exercised by the militia against them.

The Houthi militia focused on the marginalized black group in Yemen, who are the poorest group in society, and began a recruitment campaign among this group and allocated sums of money to recruit people in Sanaa and Ibb, according to what informed sources reported.

The recruitment campaign among marginalized people of all ages was launched by the Houthi militia early in the outbreak of the war in Gaza, in 30 districts belonging to the capital, Sana’a, and Ibb Governorate, with sums of money being allocated in the form of wages and operational expenses that seemingly to support Palestine, but in reality are to attract and recruit new fighters to the ranks of the militia.

The Houthi militia claims that the recruitment campaign it recently launched among marginalized groups and other groups in the lands under its control supports the Palestinian cause and that these new recruits will be transferred to fight in Palestine. This comes in conjunction with threats made by the militia leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in which he vowed to target Israel with missiles and drones, which turned into a source of widespread ridicule among Yemenis.

The Houthi militia has approved the recruitment campaign taking place among Yemenis, or what the militia calls “opening the door to jihad,” as a kind of Houthi exploitation of events and trading in issues under the pretext of supporting Palestine and supporting the Battle of Tofan Al-Aqsa in the Gaza Strip.

According to activists and politicians, the militia seeks to register the marginalized and other Yemenis in its training camps, and then push them to the front lines to fight the Yemeni government forces.

Ethnic cleansing:

Members of the marginalized group who were able to flee to Taiz Governorate confirmed that the Houthis are exploiting their poverty and need for money in an attempt to convince recruits that they will go to fight in Palestine, but what is happening is completely different from reality.

One of the marginalized people who managed to flee to the city of Taiz said: “A member of the Houthi militia attacked us, saying, ‘You should enlist for the sake of Gaza,’ which forced some of our friends to agree, but we refused and fled to Taiz Governorate. As for our companions who agreed to conscription, they were taken to fight on the fronts inside Yemen. Some of them were injured, others were arrested, deprived of their rights, and were not given anything.”

Another said that the Houthi militia took some of his children under the pretext of employing them, forcing them to flee from Sanaa to Taiz and lose the job opportunities that were a source of livelihood for them and their children as workers in the private sector.

Abdul-Ghani Aklan, the official spokesman for the National Union of Marginalized Groups in Taiz, believes that the recruitment campaign carried out by the Houthi militia among marginalized people of color is a violation of human rights.

He added, "What the Houthi militia is doing to exploit the issue of the marginalized and push them to the front line under the name of supporting Gaza is considered a violation of human rights. We, as black citizens in Yemen, condemn these violations and actions that lead to ethnic genocide and the end of this group."

Children in the wind:

According to media sources, the Houthi militia launched a new recruitment campaign targeting youth and under-age people in Ibb Governorate, coinciding with the war waged by the Israeli machine on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for more than a month.

According to the sources, the Houthi terrorist militia in Ibb Governorate took advantage of the state of popular unrest denouncing the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip, launching a campaign luring youth and under-age people to fight in its ranks throughout the Governorate’s Directorates.

The sources added that some leaders of the militia and gangs associated with them roam the neighborhoods and villages and deceive youth and under-age people that they will prepare them for training in special camps and then send them to fight in Palestine, pointing out that number of the families and targeted individuals had fallen for the hoax by the Houthi and joined them.

Activists have reported the disappearance of many children over the past few days, as the phenomenon of children disappearing in the city of Ibb and its Directorates returned in conjunction with these campaigns, at a time when military sources revealed new human reinforcements that the militia had sent to the fighting fronts, especially in the Governorates of Ma’rib and Taiz, which have been witnessing a Houthi escalation for several days.

Misinformation weapon:

The Houthi militia's continuous campaigns to mobilize and attract recruits of different ages and categories for more than a month come as an exploitation of the events by the Houthi militia and the world's preoccupation with the events in Gaza to strengthen the fighting fronts, whether to try to make military progress, achieve victory, or strengthen and activate those fronts, which the Houthi militia views as cards for pressure and it bet on it throughout the war years, through which it sought to achieve political gains.

The Houthi militia has sought the help of notables, neighborhoods' chiefs, sheikhs, and militia officials in the various Directorates of Ibb Governorate and the rest of the Governorates under its control. The militia obliged them to take effective action and attract new fighters to its ranks under the banner of “Supporting the Palestinian Cause,” as an appropriate and new means to deceive citizens and convince them to push their children and enroll them among the militia fighters.

The Houthi militia also practices misleading information and spreads some rumors, especially in the first days of the Zionist aggression on Gaza. The militia offices opened their doors to anyone who wanted to fight voluntarily and go to Gaza to fight against the Israelis and support the Palestinian resistance. However, many citizens complained of pressure being exerted on them and threats they subjected to respond to the supervisors’ request and to push their children and enroll them in the ranks of the militia to receive training in the militia camps and then push them to the battle fronts. The militia has prepared a new plan under the supervision of senior leaders to benefit from the war on Gaza in a way that achieves multiple field and material gains.