A new Houthi crime shook Yemen, showing the extent of the brutality of the terrorist militias, which reached the point of arresting children and taking them hostage to subjugate their parents who opposed their project.

In Ibb Governorate (central Yemen), the Houthi militias arrested two children from their mother’s arms and in front of the camera lenses, which documented the mother’s screams and calls for help to save her children, but to no avail.

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The crime, which was widely condemned and condemned in Yemeni circles, showed Houthi militants pointing their weapons at women who were screaming and crying before they arrested two children despite them collapsing in tears and asking for help from those around them.

The Houthi militias were not satisfied with that, but they deliberately tampered with and destroyed the house, even shooting at water tanks, and looting a car and other items of property before positioning themselves there and turning it into a military barracks.

According to local and media sources told Al-Ain News, the house belongs to the citizen, “Mohammed Musleh Al-Awdi,” who was in dispute with another citizen named “Bakeel Al-Saidi” in a case pending before tribal arbitrators 4 months ago.

The sources indicated that Al-Saidi blocked the road leading to Al-Awdi’s house with the support of the Houthi militias, and used militia members to launch an armed attack on the house, kidnapping the children, and using the house as a military barracks.

Yemeni activists considered kidnapping children a “black defect” according to tribal customs and traditions in Yemen, while it is considered a grave violation and a crime prohibited by international norms and conventions.

In recent years, the rate of child abduction by the Houthi militias has increased sharply, whether to terrorize Yemeni society, target opponents of its sectarian project, or force children to participate in hostilities on the front lines.

Human rights reports indicate that in recent years, the Houthi militias arrested 797 children and placed them in secret prisons, while (117) children, in 17 Yemeni governorates, were subjected to forced disappearance, and their fate has not been revealed to this day.