Governorate of Al-Jawf has been in the face of the Imamate Houthi project since the opening of its appetite for controlling the governorate in 2011, taking advantage of the events of the revolution of February 11. And al-Jawf was present strongly and still its flaming fronts make the victories of the Republic on the apostate Imamate, which wearing the dress of Tehran.

When the February 11, revolution was at its height, the Houthis were preparing to send their dynastic militias to al-Jawf to control the army camps as they did in Saada. In April of the same year, the Houthis tried to take control of the 115th Infantry Brigade Camp by force, but the sons of al-Jawf resisted them. Since then, the early pioneers of popular resistance in Al-Jawf governorate have been formed early, as the Iran-funded Houthi group believed that al-Jawf was a gateway to control Marib.

Al-Jawf governorate was one of the strongest governorates in the face of intervention attempts carried out by the Houthi militia, until the liberation of most of its directorates and returns them to the bosom of the Republic and the legitimacy.

By returning to the war of the mid-1960s, when the Imamate attempted to re-produce itself and wage war against the September 26, revolution, the followers of the Imamate at that time focused on al-Jawf as a starting point for their war against the Republic. In April-June 1963, the imamates attempted to seize al-Hazm in al-Jawf and failed, but the young republic was vigorously facing the return of the Imamate, and continued to liberate the areas of al-Jawf until the Republic won and the Imamate surrendered.

Islah of al-Jawf... The pioneers of the Republican struggle

When the Imamate returned again, al-Jawf was present in the ranks of the Republic and in facing of the coup. Its sons, who joined the ranks of the popular resistance and the national army, were fighting the Houthi coup and the bloody militias that committed crimes in the various areas it controlled in the governorate.

The Yemeni Islah Party, its leaders, cadres and members, along with the tribes of the governorate, were present strongly, where they worked to thwart the Houthi attempts to control the camps. They made great sacrifices in order to stop the expansion of Houthi as a dynasty project to the governorate that extends over a large area.

The Islahis in al-Jawf governorate presented wonderful scenes of the rare national struggle, showing rare championships with the tribes of the governorate and its political forces on various fronts. They continue their national struggle after liberating most of the governorate's directorates and they will continue their struggle until the restoration of the state and toppling the coup.

In an interview done on July 26, 2011, the head of the branch of Islah Party in Al-Jawf Abdul Hamid Amer warned that the Houthis are targeting through the attempt of controlling al-Jawf to suffocate the eastern governorates and control the international road and access to oil sources. He said that the Houthi militias began on April 1, with the killing of the martyr Abdullah Rqan and before that the harassment of the facilities guards and the creation of ambushes and acts of sniping. He added that Houthi wanted to control the camp and the weapon of the state, and therefore confrontations have been happened with the people of the governorate, who participated in a single trench in facing the Houthi as an aggressor targeting al-Jawf and its all residents. This battle resulted in many dead and wounded as a result of the brutality of the aggressor militias, who insisted on imposing colonial conditions against the people of the governorate and bringing in hundreds of Houthi fighters from Saada, Hajjah and Sana'a. This was the greatest proof of colonialism style and imposing its beliefs by power of arms.

The Directorate of Ghail was a square of confrontations to address the Houthi militias, as well as the area of al-Sadbaa near the Directorate of Matoun, where the squares of armed struggle for the people of the governorate and its national forces extended from that region.

In mid-2014, the leader of the Islah Party, al-Hassan, was leading a fierce resistance against the Houthi expansion, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, while a number of media were seeking to portray the war as if it was occurring between Houthi militants and supporters of the Islah Party, who went out to defend the governorate and prestige of the state, which was the main target of the Houthi militias.

Islah leaders are martyrs

On November 13, 2016, the Executive Office of the Yemeni Islah Party in al-Jawf held its first meeting after two years of forced suspension because of the war against the Houthi coup. However, this time the meeting was different, where the majority of the members of the Executive Office of the party were not present in the meeting, because they were martyred in the battle of the restoration of the Yemeni state.

Most of the members of the Executive Office (the leadership of the party in the governorate) were martyred in the battle of the dignity of Yemen. The last of these martyrs was the head of the Office Information Department Mr. Mubarak al-Abbadi, who was martyred during his coverage of the clashes between the national army and the Houthi militias in the Directorate of Ghail. He was martyred after the march of national struggle and he was the voice of the people of the governorate in the media. And the rest of the martyrs were Abdullah Muhammad Shihat, Naji Musleh Naseem the head of the Social Department, Ahmed Mohsen Najdeh head of the Political Department, Mohsen Obeid al-Shawi head of the Electoral Department, Khalid Mohsen al-Hady head of the Education Department, Abdullah Mohsen Askar head of the Unions Department, Musleh Musleh Sharyan head of Electoral Department, Muhammad Musleh Naseem head of Unions Department, Abdul Hadi Hawam head of the Judicial Department, Khaled Hamamah head of the Education Department, Mansour Yahya al-Shajni from the service sector and Hamed Zayed bin Afia from the health sector. And all these are leaders of the first row of the party in the governorate, and were at the forefront of the constellation of the martyrs in facing the Imamate and Houthi priesthood.

As they offered lessons in sacrifice for the nation and the dignity of the people, there were many leaders of the branches of the Islah Party in the battle of liberation, who sacrificed their lives for Yemen, its republic, the restoration of the state and the overthrow of the coup. Yahya Zubainullah, Yahya Hadi Bukhait, Ali Hassan Abker, Mohsen Laswad, Mansour Yahia Ali, Saleh Nasser al-Bakri, Faisal Muhammad Abboud, Ali Muhammad Hareedan, Saleh Ali al-Ghanmi and Mubarak Mutawan were martyred. All these martyrs were leaders of the Islah Party in the Directorates of al-Jawf, which resisted the return of the Imamate, and there are hundreds of sons of the governorate.

Leaders and members of al-Jawf Islah Party in the fronts of the Republic, the State and the legitimacy still continue to struggle and sacrifice, after they proved that they deserve the national struggle. Also, there are hundreds of wounded who are waiting for recovery in order to return to the battle of liberation. They do not care about their homes, which were destroyed and blown up by the Houthi militias, nor their looted headquarters, nor the material losses that do not represent anything, comparing to the homeland that was dropped by the tools of the Iranian project.

And when the Islahi leader, al-Hassan Abker, runs the governorate affairs and its resistance before the formation of the popular resistance in the rest of the governorates, and wages the confrontation side by side with the tribesmen, many of his relatives were martyred and wounded, and his home destroyed by the invaders, all these make him determined to continue the struggle to restore the state.

Al-Jawf has fought the Iranian Houthi militia since 2011; it is the governorate from which the martyr Mohammed Mahmoud al-Zubairi, led the struggle against the Imamate. Al-Jawf was the undisputed man's factory and its presence in the war of the militias. The remaining part of al-Jawf, which is under the control of the Houthi militias, will be liberated. The liberation of this governorate as a whole will open the way to reach the occupied capital Sana'a.