This is how the Houthis harassed the leaders of Hodeidah
English - Sunday 29 May 2022 الساعة 09:48 am
Hodeidah, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
After its coup against power in 2014, the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia began to overthrow the governorates one after the other. to consolidate its dominance and influence. The coup militia practiced all forms of abuse, humiliation and humiliation for the provincial leaders. Even those who allied themselves with it and helped it bring down their provinces. In Hodeidah Governorate, which was taken over by the putschists in October 2014, the terrorist militia removed and liquidated those who stood before its agendas in looting the governorate’s resources, and it also mastered the humiliation of those who colluded with it and legitimized its crimes.
Hassan Al-Hayj
Brigadier General Hassan Ahmed Al-Hayj was appointed governor of Hodeidah in September 2014. Al-Hayj, who held the position of Secretary-General of Hodeidah Governorate for years, is one of the most prominent leaders of the General People’s Congress Party in the governorate. After standing as a stumbling block in front of their agendas in looting the governorate's resources and state lands.
Al-Hayj tried to limit the militia’s recklessness in looting, which increased the dissatisfaction with it by the putschists. Disagreements between the two parties aggravated over several issues related to revenues and land looting, and the Houthi leaders’ attempt in Hodeidah to unilaterally decide on managing the governorate, in the face of stiff resistance from the governor, Which amounted to an assassination attempt.
In July 2015, Al-Hayj was subjected to an assassination attempt by militia members in front of his house in the 7th of July neighborhood, east of Hodeidah, but he miraculously survived. Abu Kharfasha,” after the governor rejected a request submitted by the Houthi supervisor to provide food and transportation to their members, as he responded to them that there is no budget to cover their demands. After that, al-Haij retreated to his home and did not go to work in the governorate office in protest against these threats, but the militia pursued him to his home, attempting to assassinate him.
And when Al-Haij did not find someone to do justice to him, he left the country, and lasted about two months, then returned again to Hodeidah, and the Houthis had been able to impose their control and decision on all the joints of the state in the governorate, so he had no choice but to stay in his home and hide from view. He became unpopular with the Houthi militia.
In 2017, the head of the so-called military intelligence of the militia, Abu Ali al-Hakim, ordered al-Hayj and his family to be placed under house arrest in Sanaa, after it was suspected that he was communicating with conference leaders close to President Saleh.
"Al-Hayj" has completely disappeared and nothing is known about his fate, after he was detained and absent by the militia, especially after he was accused of conspiring and standing behind the assassination of the mortal Saleh Al-Sammad, who was killed in April 2018, which the militia announced targeting with an air raid of the Arab coalition aircraft in Hodeidah, 5 days after his assassination was kept secret.
Ali Al-Quzi
Sheikh Ali bin Ali Al-Quzi, Secretary-General of the Local Council in Al-Hodeidah Governorate, was at the forefront of those executed by the terrorist Houthi militia by firing squad in September 2021, after he and seven others were trumped up for conspiracy and complicity with the Arab coalition in the assassination of the mortal Saleh Al-Samad.
Sheikh Ali Al-Quzi is one of the prominent leaders of the Popular Congress Party in the Hodeidah governorate, and he previously held the position of first agent in the governorate. He is also the sheikh of the sheikhs of the Salil tribes north of Hodeidah, which includes the directorates of: Al-Qanaws, Al-Zaydiyah, Al-Dhahi, Al-Munira, and Al-Mughlaf.
Al-Quzi was in constant disagreement with the Houthi supervisors, who accused him of espionage with the Arab coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia, and with the National Resistance Forces on the West Coast led by Brigadier General Tariq Saleh.
Disagreements between al-Quzi and the leaders of the Houthi militia began after his refusal to carry out the duties of the governor of Hodeidah in mid-2018, after the Houthis suspended the governor at the time, Hassan al-Haij, and placed him under house arrest.
Disputes intensified between al-Quzi and the militia, after he refused to recruit more fighters from his tribe to the Houthis. The disputes escalated into the kidnapping of one of al-Quzi’s relatives, and clashes occurred between his relatives and the supervisor of the Houthis in the al-Qanaws district, which made the militia put al-Quzi under house arrest in his home in al-Qanaws district for a period of time. Three months, before he was kidnapped on November 18, 2018, and transferred to a detention center in Sana'a on charges of communicating with the Arab Coalition and the National Resistance, before he was framed for plotting to assassinate Al-Samad, and then liquidated him.
The militia’s aim of liquidating al-Quzi was to get rid of a leading figure and influential tribal prestige, and to impose more power and terror in the hearts of other sheikhs, in addition to making al-Quzi and his companions scapegoats to bury the case and the truth in the killing of al-Samad.
Muhammad Qahim
Muhammad Ayyash Qahim is considered one of the first to fall into the arms of the terrorist Houthi militia, after it took control of Hodeidah governorate in October 2014, after the militia appointed him to the position of first agent for the governorate. Since then, he has been doing all the work that serves the militia to satisfy them.
In 2018, the coup militia appointed Muhammad Qahim as governor of Al-Hodeidah Governorate, to succeed Hassan Al-Haij, who was placed under house arrest in Sanaa. The militia used Qahim as a cover to pass its agendas and legitimize the looting of the governorate’s revenues.
Qahim was marginalized as a governor by the agents imposed by the militia in Hodeidah, as well as the incoming leaders from Saada, Amran and Hajjah, led by Hadi al-Kahlani "Abu Ali", who is close to the militia leader and appointed as a security supervisor and director of the Hodeidah police. This led to an escalation of the dispute between Qahim and Al-Kahlani, who was granted broad civil and military powers by the militia in Hodeidah. And also because of an attempt by "Qahim" to exceed the limited powers granted to him. And take decisions without referring to the Houthi leaders in the governorate, especially Al-Kahlani. As well as moving and moving without permission. Therefore, the coup militia practiced various forms of insult and humiliation against Qahim. It is insulting, and threatening with weapons, to assault him severely.
The first threat Qahim received in December 2018 came from "Abu Alaa Al-Omeisy", the supervisor of the so-called "Political and Preventive Security Service" in the province, who drew weapons in the face of the governor with insults and insults to him, against the background of the latter's statements regarding the withdrawal from The areas covered by the Stockholm Agreement.
Qahim was also subjected to many threats and insults from "Hadi Al-Kahlani" and disputes began between them over the province's revenues and resources. And the governor’s failure to abide by the orders and directions of the militia’s security supervisor. The conflict between Al-Kahlani and Qahim escalated in 2019 during the preparation of the United Nations Projects Office (UNOPS) in Al-Hodeidah, which brought in an armored protection container. Al-Kahlan refused the office’s request to place it in front of the building. Before Qahim agreed to the same request, al-Kahlani met with the director of the United Nations office in Hodeidah, Abdul-Malik al-Shawkani, a few days ago and asked him not to deal with Qahim and to deal with him directly, according to a source in the UN office.
The height of the tension between al-Kahlani and Qahim after the latter met with the head of the Houthi coup council, Mahdi al-Mashat, in late 2019 to complain to him about al-Kahlani’s attacks, and persuade him not to change him from his position, after receiving threats from al-Kahlani to dismiss him from his position, and appointing Houthi supervisor Abdul-Jabbar al-Jarmuzy “Abu Younis”, who occupies The position of the governorate’s deputy for financial affairs, as governor of Al-Hodeidah, as an alternative.
In February 2020, "Al-Kahlani" directed the arrest of Qahim because of what he described as the major setbacks and the governor's failure to perform the task that was entrusted to him at the time to push the sheikhs and dignitaries of the Tihama to mobilize fighters to the militia fronts, and Qahim was later released after pledging to carry out the tasks assigned to him. By mobilizing the sons of Tihama to the incinerators of death.
In late August 2021, the governor, Muhammad Qahim, and the governorate’s deputy, Muhammad Suleiman Helisi, were summoned by Houthi leaders Youssef Al-Madani and Hadi Al-Kahlani, against the background of their failure to mobilize the fighters. Their escorts were withdrawn, their personal weapons were stripped, and they were severely beaten, after which they were taken to the hospital. The militia appeared “Qahim” in a meeting of the Water Corporation, three days after he was assaulted, with signs of beating on his face.
The militia used "Qahim" to be one of the witnesses against Sheikh Ali Al-Quzi, the Secretary-General of the governorate, who was executed by the militia along with eight other people from Tihama in 2021 after they were trumped up on charges of espionage and complicity in the murder of the decimated Saleh Al-Sammad.
In late September 2021, Qahim survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by the militia and carried out under the cover of a traffic accident, after his convoy had an accident after returning with some Houthi leaders in Hodeidah, after they made a lightning visit to Baihan in Shabwa governorate. To boost the morale of the militia members, which at that time had regained control over some districts of Bihan, with the complicity of the Brotherhood.
