Houthis challenging Yemen’s international laws

Mahmud Mohamadi

Hardly does a day pass without new developments on the Yemeni arena, ones that reveal the Houthi militia’s efforts to undermine security and stability in the region.

These efforts are always made in a systematic and deliberate manner that reflects the militia’s blatant defiance of the international community and its disregard for all international laws and norms.

Yemeni capital Sana’a has recently been the scene of some of these developments.

The Houthis have turned the Yemeni capital into a large workshop for the manufacture of weapons, ballistic missiles and drones.

They plan to use these arms in staging terrorist operations and targeting civilians and civilian objects in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Missile workshops

The Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen said it had destroyed several Houthi workshops for the manufacture of ballistic missiles and drones in Sana’a during the past few days.

In a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency, SPA, the coalition confirmed that it had carried out airstrikes on military camps and targets in Sana’a, explaining that the operation targeted the presidential residence camps under the control of the Houthis, as well as destroying ballistic missile workshops, drones, and underground stores.

The Arab coalition forces threaten to target those involved in hostilities and terrorist leaders who work to spread terror in Yemen and its Arab surroundings.

Nonetheless, the Houthi-affiliated al Masirah channel announced via Twitter that the coalition’s warplanes launched three raids on the al-Nahdin area, south of Sana’a, without further details.

Not the first

Those workshops and warehouses destroyed by the Arab coalition are not the first of their kind.

Over the past months, the Houthi militias have tried several times to build workshops to manufacture their weapons, but the Arab coalition has been on the lookout for them.

Last March, the coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen launched violent air strikes, targeting Houthi militia sites, as the air strikes included Sana’a, Amran and Hudaydah.

The strikes targeted ballistic missile sites and manufacturing workshops in Sana’a and Hudaydah, and coalition fighters bombed Houthi militia sites and barracks south and north of Sana’a.

The coalition raids targeted a missile launcher in the Hamedan suburb, north of the capital, in addition to the camps of the Maintenance Corps, al-Nahdin, al-Hafa and Jerban, to the south.