It is no longer a secret that the Houthi militia in Yemen is a group rebelling against the state, international law, and even norms and good-neighborly relations. It has crossed all red lines, with its missiles targeting Makkah - the Qibla of Muslims, the land of peace and security, and the place where whoever enters is safe.
The Houthi militia has carried out hostile acts against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, attacking energy facilities and other civilian infrastructure using dozens of drones and missiles. This violates good-neighborly relations and the sanctity of Muslim blood. In response to this condemned aggression, the Kingdom has the right to respond, as the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition affirmed that it "will deal with these attacks with responsibility and firmness."
The Houthi militia's attempts to flee forward from defeat by shifting the front and launching missiles and suicide drones reflect a hysterical state of futility, playing with fire, and shuffling cards to serve its own interests. This conduct makes it a terrorist group that cannot be classified as a political movement or a faction with local demands.
No matter how many missiles and drones the Houthi militia possesses, it can never become a state above the Yemeni state, nor can it contend with a country deeply rooted in history -distinguished by heritage, values, wise leadership, presence, and power - like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The majority of the Houthis' weapons come from an external funder. The evidence is that their internal resources cannot bear the cost of arming the militia, even if they were to loot all the funds of the Central Bank of Yemen. The cost of these weapons, especially the ballistic missiles launched at Saudi Arabia, which have not spared Makkah from their target, confirms that the Houthis' financial backer lies beyond Yemen's borders.
Among the latest attacks on the Kingdom announced by the Houthi militia are launching a Cruise missile targeting a civilian airport in Abha and attacks using Iranian drones targeting oil pumping stations in the Kingdom, which continues to exercise self-restraint against this militia that has rebelled against its own homeland before its neighbors.
The worsening internal Yemeni crisis stems from the Houthi militia hiding behind civilians in Sanaa and the mountains of Saada, using them as human shields to protect its operatives and weapons from airstrikes.
It has not won a single battle in its futile wars with those weapons, which entered Yemen disassembled aboard boats from regional states trying to drag the entire region into the fires of a proxy war - a war that brings no benefit other than exporting their own crises and fleeing forward from conflicts they ignited and failed to extinguish, despite yielding to negotiation terms. Yet, they failed to end a war they started as losers and will emerge from defeated, bankrupt, and surrendered.
The Houthis are an armed militia operating under a religious slogan, taking the mountains and caves of Saada as their primary base. In reality, the Houthi militia does not represent all Yemenis; rather, it represents the Houthi family seeking to rule Yemen.
The armed Houthi militia in Yemen is like other military arms in the region - used by regional powers to impose their agendas. Its presence constitutes a threat to regional peace, not merely a local threat or an internal conflict within regional states.
Armed militias exist to impose their will on the society in which they operate, frequently causing crises such as tyranny and political suppression. Most of these militias act against their own homelands, serving the interests of their funders and obeying the commands of their handlers.
Yemen's long years of suffering are caused by the rebellious Houthi militia, which ignited a fierce war long before the Arab Coalition intervened to restore legitimacy and stability to a nation destroyed by Houthi proxy wars.
"Happy Yemen" has become "Sorrowful Yemen" due to recurring wars, widespread unemployment, poverty, and rampant hunger. The Houthi project is not a national Yemeni project, but a regional project aimed at controlling the region.
