Talking about the Houthi coup militia means talking about all forms of devastation, destruction, corruption, and crimes, as a natural and inevitable result of the coup against the observed laws, customs, and traditions in force in the country, as well as transgressing the law and the constitution through the militia’s criminal behavior and terrorist practices that it has been doing since it consolidated its control over large areas of the country.

Blowing up opponents' homes, institutions and installations is one of the policies that the militia has pursued since it monopolized power and assumed security and military tasks. This militia has persevered in this heinous act and crime in order to abuse its opponents and spread terror in the hearts of citizens, as a method of spreading terror and fear among society in order for them to surrender to its survival in power and not think of opposing its criminal policies that it practices through influential and supervisors affiliated with the militia.

 

Ugly coming back:

The process of demolishing and bombing the homes and facilities of the opponents had declined in the last two years in favor of nationalizing and confiscating those homes, real estate, and lands belonging to the personalities who oppose the militia's policies. However, that criminal policy has returned to the fore again to express a criminal tendency rooted in the spirit of this militia and a pervasive appetite to abuse and terrorize opponents in order to impose its policies and culture copied from Iran, which seeks to devote these policies and cultures in society despite their contradiction with the constitution, culture and the identity of the country, and then strive to replace it with iron and fire.

With the advent of 2023, the Houthi militia began implementing its criminal policy by bombing homes and property again, and the latest of these crimes was the militia's bombing of six homes of civilians in the village of Al-Zawr in the Sirwah Directorate, west of Ma'rib.

According to what the Saba Center stated, the Houthi militia blew up six homes belonging to citizens in the Sirwah Directorate of Ma'rib Governorate in February of this year 2023. The Center stated that the homes that were blown up by the militia belonged to citizens (Ahmed Nasser al-Jahmi, Abdul Aziz al-Jahmi and Ahmed Jarwan).

 

The real face of terrorism:

The Yemeni government denounced this operation, which was carried out by the terrorist Houthi militia, which was the bombing of citizens' homes in the Al-Zawr area in the Sirwah Directorate, west of Ma'rib.

In turn, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Muammar Al-Eryani, denounced in the strongest terms the militia's detonation of the homes of a number of citizens in Al-Zawr area in the Sirwah Directorate, including the house of Ahmed Nasser Al-Dawla al-Jahmi, who died five years before the coup, in addition to the displacement of families consisting of women and children.

In a statement he made to the Yemeni news agency, Saba, al-Eryani explained that the Houthi militia's continuation of bombing the homes of its opponents who opposed the coup in Ma'rib Governorate and other areas reflects its position on calls for calm and the restoration of the armistice, which several parties seek to establish, and reveals its true face as a terrorist organization that does not believe in dialogue and the peaceful approach, stressing that it is just a tool for killing and destruction and cannot be a true partner in building peace.

Al-Eryani pointed out that human rights organizations have documented the terrorist Houthi militia's bombing of hundreds of homes affiliated with state, army, and security leaders since its coup, as well as homes affiliated with politicians, media figures, sheiks, and citizens. This militia has taken the policy of blowing up homes and forcibly displacing their residents as an approach and method to terrorize citizens and take revenge on all those who oppose its coup project. Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations and the UN and US envoys to break their silence on such crimes and declare their clear position on terrorist acts that undermine calm efforts, which fall within the policies of forced displacement of civilians, war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling on them to work on including the group in the list of terrorism.

 

Barbarism and immorality:

This criminal operation comes two years after the displacement of the residents of the region and turning them into displaced persons in the displacement camps and gatherings scattered in the Marib Governorate.

As a result of the intensification of the battles on the fronts of western Marib at the beginning of the year 2021, and the targeting of residential areas and camps for the displaced with artillery and ballistic missiles by the Houthis, the people and the displaced were forced to leave towards the city in order to preserve their lives, and since then the people and the displaced have not been able to return to their homes.

The successive tragedies and calamities that befell the residents of the region and the displaced, turning them into a life of homelessness and displacement, and their suffering as a result of the continuation of crimes against them and their repeated targeting by the Houthi militia, and the demolition of homes and farms and planting mines, did not prevent the Houthi militia from also resorting to blowing up the remaining houses in a manner criminal.

Local sources confirmed that the Houthi militia infiltrated the village at night and planted explosive devices in the targeted homes and managed to detonate them by remote control, in an indication of the militia's barbarity and hatred against civilians who refused to submit to its project and sectarian ideas.

One of the human rights centers had described the bombing of citizens' homes as a gross violation of the law and the constitution and a violation of the right of ownership, which is practiced by the Houthi militia in various Yemeni Governorates.

In its statement, which it posted on the Twitter platform, the American Center for Justice (ACJ) says that the Houthi militia blew up four civilian-owned homes in the Al-Zawr village of Sirwah Directorate, west of Marib, with explosive devices.

The Center pointed out that the Houthi militia blew up the homes of its influence opponents, including citizens, leaders, party activists, leaders and officials in the state and social figures because of their rejection of its policy and not submitting to its project and influence, as it accuses them of treason and collusion.

 

Crimes do not have a statute of limitations:

According to alsahwa-yemen.net, quoting Khadija Ali, the executive director of the Civil Commission for the Victims of House Bombings, the Houthi militia blew up 62 homes in 2021 and the last quarter of 2020.

According to Khadija Ali, the houses that were blown up by the Houthi militia are distributed among Al-Baydha Governorate, 5 houses, in Taiz governorate, 47 houses, including 4 houses in Al-Hawban Square, 43 houses in Al-Haima area in Taiz, 4 houses in Al-Jawf Governorate, 6 houses in Marib, two including in the Al-Juba region last year and four houses early this year 2023 in the Sirwah region, west of Marib, noting that there are about twenty houses in Marib that were destroyed by the militia with missiles.

Khadija adds that with this recent crime against four houses in Sirwah, the number of houses blown up by the Houthi militia has reached 900, which were documented and monitored by the victims with all documents and witnesses, noting that these crimes do not lapse by prescription.

According to observers, the continuation of the Houthi militia in its crimes and destructive behavior, as well as its war on citizens, is a reflection of the silence of the international community. There is nothing to deter this militia from committing these crimes. It does not bow to peace and does not care about agreements, and it will remain a source of concern for citizens. This militia cannot coexist with citizens without this criminal behavior that must be confronted and not tolerated by everyone at all levels in order to provide justice to the victims.

 

Israeli policy:

The Houthi militia is not satisfied with arresting or displacing opponents of its policy from the areas it invades and controls, but also resorts to blowing up their homes, in a strategy through which it aims to stifle the voices that constituted an obstacle to its expansionist project in those areas and to terrorize other voices and intimidate its opponents in other regions that haven't reached it yet.

The Houthi militia always resorts to revenge against every person who proves to be opposed to its policy, or even the person who preferred to be neutral by simply belonging to other parties opposed to the militia's policy by blowing up their homes. This makes us remember the practices of the Israeli occupation, especially with regard to the occupation's policy of blowing up Palestinian homes as a punitive measure, even though the Houthi militia has superior to the Zionist occupation in the heinousness of practicing criminality, where the number of homes demolished by the Houthi militia during its coup against the state far exceeds the number of houses demolished by the occupation forces demolished it at the same time.

The Houthi militia has a record full of crimes of demolishing and bombing the homes of its opponents as a policy it has been following since the beginning of the coup against the state. Since the bombing of the house of the leader of the Hashid tribes, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar, in the Al-Khamri district of Amran Governorate, in early February 2014, the Houthi militia has been selecting the homes of influential tribal figures who are at the forefront of the military or even political scene in order to blow them up.

Usually, the Houthis are keen to document the bombing scenes of the houses they carry out, where the militia members place explosive devices in all corners of the building and then detonate it via remote control, accompanied by chants of “Allah is Great” and the Iranian scream calling for “Death to America and Israel” as a military and political victory that is added to the militia's record, and is usually performed when what is seen as gain.

 

An implicit threat:

The Houthi militia has been accustomed to blowing up homes located in villages and remote areas in particular, where this policy has not been applied to homes located in cities and vital places, such as the homes of high-ranking leaders in the capital, Sana'a and the capitals of other cities, especially the house of General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, or the house of businessman Hamid Al-Ahmar, where, instead of blowing these homes up, the militia seizes them and turns them into their own headquarters or makes them private residences for military leaders loyal to it, and all this is done through the so-called "judicial guard" device, where the militia has seized dozens of homes belonging to parliamentarians and politicians loyal to the legitimate government, in addition to the confiscation of their farms in the Governorates of Hajjah, Hudaydah, and other Governorates.

However, the Houthi militia is still continuing its policy of demolishing and bombing homes in remote areas and villages, keening to entrench its tyranny and terror in the minds of citizens and intimidate them, while at the same time presenting a threatening message to others that whoever stands against it will meet the same fate.

There is no difference between blowing up houses or burning them and destroying their contents because, in the end, it is a kind of war crime that the Houthi coup militia has mastered and used as propaganda to terrorize opponents. Where the militia always resorts to photographing the bombing scenes and broadcasting them in the media and social networking sites in a way that is intended to communicate these scenes to opponents, opponents, and the general public. Where this is considered a veiled threat to spread terror and fear among the people of the region so that they do not think of adopting any form of resistance, and as a result, the majority of citizens resort to silence so as not to be subjected to such punishment.

The policy of bombing homes was not a modern-day invention, but the militia began to inaugurate it from the first moment of the invasion of the capital, Sana'a, and the rest of the Yemeni cities under its control in late 2014. The militia went along the bombing of the homes of its opponents, displacing them and abusing those who oppose its sectarian tendencies, in addition to bombing and occupying the Holy Quran memorization centers and schools, as well as converting civilian buildings into military barracks, secret prisons, and torture and detention centers, according to international human rights reports.

 

There is no sanctity for mosques:

The criminal Houthi militia has crossed all red lines and there is no sanctity in its dictionary for anything, including mosques, which were not safe from the militia crimes that affected the land and people in Yemen. The bombing of mosques and centers for memorizing the Holy Qur’an is a criminal behavior that the Yemenis knew only through this criminal militia, which has consistently committed various types of crimes prohibited by divine religions and laws.

The mosques did not receive the care and protection that the US embassy obtained from the Houthi coup militia. Rather, contrary to their claim of hostility to America and Israel through their scream that they chant day and night, and their claims of supporting the Qur’an and calling their group and their terrorist march the name “The Qur’anic march”, the mosques had a share lots of destruction, bombing and tampering at the hands of this militia, which did not shy away from any type of crime.

The targeting and bombing of mosques by the Houthis reflect the militia's hatred of Islamic symbols and sanctities and its endeavor to distort the culture of society and obliterate its identity, especially if we look at the scale of the crimes they practice and the huge numbers of mosques that have been targeted and bombed.

According to official statistics published more than a year ago, the number of mosques that were bombed, destroyed and looted by the Iranian Houthi militia amounted to about 750 mosques, of which 282 were in the capital Sana’a, followed by Saada Governorate with 115 mosques, and the rest mosques are in separate areas, including mosques that have been destroyed completely or by bombing them with tanks or through looting and raids, and it also converted some mosques into military barracks and weapons stores for the coup militia members.