Today, Monday, a prominent leader of the Houthi militia announced his defection from the Houthi movement Iran-backed militiaand its accession to the Yemeni legitimacy.
Suleiman Owaidin Al-Ghouli, a tribal sheikh from Amran, appeared in a video recording from Ma’rib announcing his defection from the Houthi militia, in whose government, which is not internationally recognized, the position of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Al-Ghouli said in a tweet on his Twitter account, “After I arrived in Ma’rib, the Republic, praise be to God, I announced my official joining the Yemeni legitimacy and the Arab coalition to fight the Iranian Houthi coup.”
This comes days following sources close to al-Ghouli announced that he had been arrested for the second time by the Houthi militia in Sanaa.
And Suleiman Al-Ghouli is the nephew of the prominent tribal sheikh Sultan Al-Ghouli, who was killed in an air raid by the fighters of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy with a number of his companions in mid-2018, while he was leading the Houthi battles in the vicinity of Al-Durayhimi district, south of the coastal governorate of Hodeidah on the Red Sea.
On Monday, Rashad Al-Alimi, head of the Yemeni Leadership Council, held the Houthis responsible for not extending the truce and its serious repercussions on the security and stability of Yemen.
Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak said that reclassifying the Houthis as a terrorist group has become an urgent demand.
Meanwhile, a Yemeni government source considered that the fallacies and practices of the Houthi militia are evidence of the failure of the truce, pointing out that the Houthi militias have looted sums that exceeded more than 60 billion riyals since the Hodeidah agreement in 2019.
The Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, called on the international community to take a strong and clear position in condemning the Houthi militia’s obstruction of peace efforts in the country, a day following the Iranian-backed militia announced its rejection of a UN proposal to expand and extend the humanitarian truce that expired yesterday evening.
