A day after a member of Yemen’s Presidential Command Council warned that the Iran-backed Houthis may be escalating attacks on other groups in Yemen, a new report on Wednesday indicates that the Houthis are “preparing for a possible military confrontation in Yemen.”
The two reports are from UAE-based AlAin News and indicate that its sources are talking about the growing Houthi threat.
So far, the Houthis have been attacking ships and claim to be supporting Hamas in Gaza. They may be using this as leverage and cover for the next phase of their campaign, however, which could be a war against the government forces of an already divided Yemen.
The Houthis are “recruiting thousands of young men and children under the slogan and claims of ‘Supporting Palestine,’” AlAin reported. In fact, the Houthis now appear to be seeking to use their claims of support for Gaza to inflame tensions closer to home.
The Houthis openly recruit under the banner of “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and they are training the new recruits, the report said. Under the guise of the attacks on the Red Sea, this training may be preparations to “launch a future round of war that will assassinate the peace process in Yemen.”
Yemen’s peace process goes back several years. In addition, China helped broker Saudi-Iranian normalization, and Riyadh had sought to end the war in Yemen.
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