Houthis, Muslim Brotherhood joining hands in Yemen

Noura Bendari

Islah Party, the Muslim Brotherhood branch in Yemen, works hard to enable the Iran-backed Houthi militia to control Yemen’s southern provinces.

However, this plan is being foiled by the southern Yemeni resistance as well as by the Yemeni people.

The General Administration for Foreign Affairs in the Southern Transitional Council addressed the United Nations Security Council on April 17 about the dangers of the moves the Muslim Brotherhood’s party takes in liberated cities in southern Yemen.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the administration said, tries to destabilize these cities and stoke tensions in them.

These moves, the administration said, threaten efforts for bringing peace to the southern Yemeni cities. They also threaten a ceasefire reached recently in these cities, the administration said in its letter to the Security Council.

Houthi-Brotherhood plan

On April 18, the Southern Resistance Forces foiled an attempt by the Houthis to advance towards the southern province of Ad Dali’. The Houthis also sustained major losses in the attempt.

We have managed to foil the fiercest Houthi attack to date, said Fouad Caid Jabari, the official spokesman of Ad Dali’ Fronts.

He said Houthi troops had to pull back after sustaining defeats and losses.

Evil partners

Fadl al-Jaadi, a member of the Southern Transitional Council, said the Houthis would not be able to protect their proxies, in a veiled reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Those who are not capable of protecting the areas under their control cannot protect their proxies, al-Jaadi wrote on Twitter.

Salem Thabet al-Awalqi, another member of the council, said the Houthis and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to team up in a number of Yemeni cities with the aim of controlling these cities.