The conflict between the Houthi wings disrupts the alleged “radical changes”.
While Houthi leaders compete for positions in the government that the group plans to form as part of the alleged “radical changes,” other leaders have begun taking precautions to secure themselves and their families. In anticipation of any measures that might affect them, whether through assassinations, kidnapping, or referral to the courts.
Informed sources in Sanaa reported that a large number of centrist and field leaders withdrew from demanding their entitlements to positions and influence, after new signs emerged of an escalation of the conflict between the various wings and leaders, especially after the leader of the Houthi group announced last September “radical changes,” and began. By dismissing the unrecognized government and assigning it to “caretaker affairs.”
Field commanders in the Houthi group demand their rights to influence after the fronts stopped (Houthi media)
The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the struggle over positions and influence, as part of the efforts to form a new government, was confined to the leaders of the wings seeking to appoint those loyal to them and those affiliated with them in sensitive positions in the government, and that the differences were not limited to the positions of ministers and their deputies, but rather extended. To include agents, general managers, and even department and department managers.
The leaders of the Houthi group are studying several options to overcome the dispute and not escalate it, including establishing more entities parallel to state institutions with the aim of distributing the shares of the wings among them.
According to the sources, the front and field leaders, who are searching for their entitlements from corruption funds, levies, and positions, have divided into two groups; The first group belongs to families with strong ties to the group’s leaders and wings, enjoys their support, and has the audacity to escalate and demand its entitlements, while the second group does not enjoy these privileges, and its members fear abuse if they insist on their demands.
The sources add that the leader of the Houthi group used the events in Gaza as a justification for not deciding on the formation of the government, and called on the various parties to be patient and devote their efforts to serving the Houthi tendency to participate in the war, and to benefit from them in directing public opinion and distracting it from the popular protests and the demands of public employees for their salaries.
Eliminations and cyber warfare
A number of Houthi field commanders fear being liquidated or abused, after several incidents of liquidations and kidnappings that were covered up or charges were fabricated against their victims.
Leader Hadi Ghanem Qasma, nicknamed “Abu Tariq,” the commander of Preventive Security in Al-Bayda Governorate (277 kilometers southeast of Sana’a), was killed in confrontations between his gunmen and gunmen affiliated with a Houthi leader from the governorate, about a month after the killing of the two leaders, Abdul Salam Jahlan, the brother of Leader Yasser Jahlan, appointed to the position of director of the Mukayras District, and Jamal Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mesayadi, and other relatives of the first were injured.
Observers fear that the conflict of the wings and the Gaza war will cause the failure of peace efforts in Yemen (Getty)
The group claimed that the two incidents were behind terrorist elements, which raised suspicion and concern among many leaders that this was a cover-up of the two incidents, which were likely part of liquidation plans in the context of the conflict between the wings, especially since the three dead were among the most prominent Houthi leaders and supervisors.
A large number of leaders resorted to taking security and logistical precautions to protect themselves and their families, including moving their families outside the group’s areas of control, some of them with false identities.
The sources report that the conflict between the wings has taken on a new character, resembling a cyber war between them, moving with it to the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Central Organization for Control and Accounting, the courts and prosecution offices, all of which are agencies controlled by the Houthi group, and whose wings share their management and manage them to their advantage.
Houthi media recently revealed that the Supreme National Anti-Corruption Authority (the Houthi version) approved the referral of 26 defendants in two corruption cases, which it described as “serious,” to the judiciary, after approving the results of the investigation and investigation procedures carried out by the Authority’s Investigation and Investigation Department, the Security and Intelligence Service, and the Money Investigation Department. the public.
The authority accuses those involved in the first case of harming the national economy and financial institutions, penetrating the systems of a number of financial institutions, electronic fraud, forgery of identity documents, and laundering proceeds generated in amounts amounting to 10 million and 330 thousand Yemeni riyals, 6 thousand and 700 dollars, and 298 thousand Saudi riyals.
Many Houthi leaders take strict security precautions out of fear for their lives and their families from internal liquidations (Houthi media)
As for the second case, it includes harming the state’s interest, seizing public money, and sabotaging the national economy in one of the production units, with a damage amounting to 3 million and 429 thousand dollars, according to the allegations of the authority, which approved the seizure and tracking of the funds and assets of the defendants in the two cases, and the pursuit of the defendants who fled outside the control of the case. The Houthi group.
The Houthi authority indicated that a number of defendants involved in the two cases fled outside the group’s areas of control, without providing the names or descriptions of any of them.
The sources talked about the expansion of the plots, the leaking of documents on corruption files from various sectors, in addition to objection to the presence of certain Houthi leaders in more than one position. Such as Hashem Al-Shami, who holds two leadership positions in the Electricity Corporation and the Land Authority, and Taha Gran, who runs the so-called “General Authority for the Care of Martyrs’ Families,” and the “Yateem” Foundation.
The “Gaza War” is an opportunity for salvation
For weeks, Houthi elements have carried out widespread raids and kidnappings targeting leaders and activists, most of which were concealed. Because of the fears of the families of the abductees that they will be subjected to abuse, and the futility of mediations to release them if their abduction issues are raised through the media.
However, the kidnapping of the Houthi leader and activist, Muhammad al-Jarmouzi, from his home gained a lot of attention in areas controlled by the Houthi group, because he is popular among the group’s supporters and followers. Because of his writings and poems supporting it and justifying its practices and war.
The group’s criminal prosecution issued a coercive arrest warrant against Al-Jarmouzi on charges of contempt of the judiciary, but the implementation of the order was delayed for several weeks.
Al-Jarmouzi accused leaders of the Houthi group of kidnapping him. As a result of his refusal to send a delegation to the Saudi capital, Riyadh; To negotiate to bring peace to Yemen, describing the matter as “treason and disavowal of the blood of the fighters,” demanding the continuation of the war.
The rivalry of the Houthi wings hinders the formation of a new coup government (Houthi media)
Observers believe that the escalating conflict between the wings threatens the possibility of real peace negotiations, and the Houthi group’s serious involvement in them, as it seems clear, according to a political researcher residing in the capital, Sana’a, that while the group is sending delegations to negotiate in more than one Arab capital, other leaders are working to escalate and threaten. The return of battles.
The researcher, who requested that his data be withheld, warned that the Houthi escalation on some internal fronts coincides with its announcement of participation in the Gaza war, and its accusation of neighboring countries of not enabling it to launch its missiles and drones, or allowing it to send its soldiers and fighters to land adjacent to Gaza. He said that the group’s accusation that the internal and Arab circles are working for Israel reveals very bad intentions.
The researcher emphasized that the Gaza war gave the group an opportunity to overcome many of the challenges it faces, seek to resolve internal disputes, redistribute shares of influence and corruption, and strengthen its negotiating front to dictate unfair terms, pointing out that it realizes that the international powers that are pressing to achieve a political settlement in Yemen understand their method of taking advantage. From the Gaza war, and you can help it do that.
2023-11-13 11:28:59
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