Brotherhood leaders in Taiz sell 10 military vehicles to Houthi militias
English - Tuesday 15 September 2020 الساعة 03:47 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Sources close to the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, revealed that the leaders and supervisors of the militia in Taiz Governorate had purchased a number of military vehicles that were handed over by the coalition leadership to the Taiz resistance.
According to the sources that NewsYemen spoke to, the Houthi supervisors and within the framework of their communication with the leaders of the Taiz resistance, which is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, the Islah party, to reach an understanding on a prisoner exchange during the last period, they were able to persuade these leaders to sell them a number of new military vehicles that were handed to them by coalition forces.
According to the sources, the understanding process included the purchase of ten new vehicles from those handed over to the leadership of the resistance in Taiz by the coalition forces, and that the price of one vehicle reached more than 10 million riyals, equivalent to one thousand five hundred dollars for one vehicle(considering the dollar price of 700 Yemeni riyals during the completion of the process the purchase).
The sources pointed out that the process of handing over the vehicles that were sold by the leaders of the Brotherhood resistance in Taiz to the Houthi militia took place during the prisoner exchange process between the militias and Brotherhood leaders in Taiz on the fourth of last August, which included the release of 13 prisoners of the Houthi militia in the Taiz front with local mediation.
This was announced by the militia leader responsible for the prisoners' file, Abdulqader Al-Murtada, through his Twitter account, that on Tuesday 4-8-2020, 13 prisoners of the army and the popular committees affiliated with the Taiz front were liberated in a cross-exchange process through local understandings. "
The sources confirmed that this operation is not the first of its kind, as the Houthi militia had previously purchased military equipment from Brotherhood leaders and others affiliated with the legitimate army from different fronts in exchange for large sums of money.
