More than 100 Yemeni, American and European organizations have called on the European Parliament to classify the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization and impose sanctions on it and ensure that its leaders do not go unpunished for the systematic crimes they are committing against civilians in Yemen.

In a joint statement addressed Tuesday to the Presidency of the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers of the European Union. And these organizations confirmed that the militia’s crimes committed against the Yemeni people varied between killing, torture, abducting, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, child recruitment, the siege of cities, the bombing of houses and laying land and sea mines of all kinds.

And these organizations accused the Houthi militia of adopting a policy of impoverishment and starvation represented in stealing employee salaries and stealing humanitarian aid and selling it on the black market, in addition to preventing humanitarian aid from reaching its beneficiaries, which has been documented by international organizations in their reports.

In the statement they issued, the organizations said that the Houthi militia had turned Sanaa International Airport into a military barracks to bomb civilian facilities and receive Iranian weapons, in clear violation of the Security Council Resolution No. 2216, in addition to making ports such as the port of Hodeidah a starting point for boats and sea mines to threaten international navigation, contrary to what was agreed upon in Stockholm. And this enabled the Houthi militia to commit more crimes and violations.

And the organizations revealed that the Houthi group has forcibly recruited more than 30,000 children since 2014, and used schools and educational facilities as training camps for minors. In addition, the Houthi group uses an educational system based on incitement to violence derived from their ideology based on violence and extremist ideas, in addition to issuing sentences executions, including the execution of 9 civilians last September, including a minor.

The statement expressed its regret over the escalation of Houthi crimes and violations with every military escalation, disregarding humanitarian and human rights calls and calls for peace, noting that the militia deliberately expands the gap of human suffering and threatens the security and safety of civilians and displaced persons, including women, children and the elderly, as well as the militia’s continued planting of mines and taking the displaced as human shields, as they had previously used the abducted as human shields.

The statement reviewed a number of crimes, including depriving women of protection, where grave violations were committed against them, including murder, physical assault, abducting and sexual violence. The number of detainees has reached more than 1,800 women, including civil society activists. The statement called on the European Parliament to quickly impose mechanisms to hold the Houthi group accountable and classify it as a terrorist group.