A Houthi welcome to the Brotherhood's calls for a military alliance against the "coalition" and the "presidential"
English - Saturday 13 August 2022 الساعة 10:39 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:
Prominent leaders of the Houthi group expressed their readiness to ally themselves militarily with the Brotherhood against the Presidential Council and the Arab coalition in Yemen, after the latter threatened to withdraw from the partnership within the Presidential Council in protest against the suppression of the rebellion in Shabwa Governorate, southern Yemen.
The Yemeni Congregation for Islah Party (the local arm of the Brotherhood in Yemen) issued a strongly worded statement, yesterday evening, Thursday, after the local authorities in Shabwa succeeded in putting down the rebellion against it and against the decisions of the Presidential Council, which was led by military and security formations loyal to the group.
In its statement, the party demanded that the Presidential Leadership Council dismiss Shabwa Governor Awad bin Al-Wazir Al-Awlaki and refer him to investigation, threatening to "reconsider his participation in all fields", amid a fierce attack by the party's media and activists against the council and its leaders, accusing it of treason and delegitimizing it.
The party leaders organized an attack on the Presidential Leadership Council, where the head of the Marib reform, Mabkhout bin Aboud al-Sharif, accused him of "overthrowing the homeland", considering that what he had done was worse than the coup of the Houthi group, as he described it.
Al-Sharif said in a tweet to him on "Twitter": "The political council of the Houthi group brought down a state and the Presidential Council brought down a homeland ... restoring an easy state and returning a difficult homeland."
The speech of the head of Ma’rib Reform, who is one of the prominent leaders of the Brotherhood in Yemen, included a hint that the group might announce an alliance with the Houthi group, in light of the remarkable escalation of such calls by Brotherhood activists and media professionals.
The Houthi group, through its prominent leaders, welcomed the idea of a political and military alliance with the Brotherhood, declaring its readiness to provide military protection for the party's leaders and bases from targeting the Arab alliance.
The Houthi leader, Muhammad al-Bakhiti, said in a tweet to him on "Twitter": The survival of the Islah party in the ranks of the Arab coalition is no longer justified after today (in reference to the resolution of the battle in Shabwa).
While Al-Bakhiti claimed that Al-Islah was targeted by coalition aircraft, he said that joining the Houthi group would bring him "within the scope of protecting our missile and air forces, and we will be able to quickly resolve the battle."
In order to achieve this alliance, Al-Houthi stipulated that Al-Islah expedite the handover of the fronts controlled by the party to the Houthi militia, where he said: If (Al-Islah) delays in making this decision and loses the areas of its control adjacent to us, this means that it will lose the last opportunity.
This offer was repeated by the Houthi leader Hussein Al-Ezzi, who expressed in a tweet to him on Twitter his condemnation of the "UAE bombing of the Islah militia," stressing his group's willingness to blow up the truce in exchange for entering a war against the alliance with the Islah party.
Al-Ezzi said: If the Islah leadership, represented by Al-Yadoumi and Al-Ansi, applies to us with a request to seek help from a website and is published on their official website, we will be ready to set fires from all four sides.
The Houthi leaders’ announcement of their willingness to ally themselves militarily with the Brotherhood comes in light of the group’s recent intensification to display new batches of its fighters, accompanied by its heavy weapons. Yesterday, Friday, it held in Sana'a the second military parade in 72 hours, in an indication of its readiness for the next round of war.
