The Houthi collection campaigns launched by the group under allegations of donating to the Palestinians in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon faced societal rejection in the kidnapped Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the rest of the coup-controlled areas, despite the volume of propaganda and attacks on opponents of these campaigns.

The group had launched, two weeks ago, under the pretext of “supporting the displaced people of Lebanon and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people,” campaigns to collect cash donations, by placing boxes inside commercial stores, on main roads and streets, and at the doors of mosques, despite the widening extent of poverty in the areas under its control, and the disability of millions. Population unable to provide necessary food.

In light of the failure of the donation campaign carried out by the group in several mosques, the group’s preachers attacked from the pulpits the crowds of worshipers in mosques within the districts of Ma’in, Azal, and Old Sana’a, accusing them of inaction, indifference, evading any responsibilities, being loyal to enemies, and not responding by providing financial support.

While the Houthi coup plotters ignore all local and international warnings of an imminent famine in most of the cities under their control, the Houthi clerics renew their appeals from the pulpits of mosques to residents to donate money, and the need to reduce the population’s daily spending on their families and children, and provide that for the benefit of supporting donation funds.

The recent donation campaign aroused the discontent of the population, as the group has continued, since the years of coup and war, to ignore human suffering and launch more acts of oppression and extortion.

Worshippers in the Omar, Al-Tawhid, and Al-Fatah mosques, in the Sunaina neighborhood in Sana’a, expressed their strong dissatisfaction with the placement of fundraising boxes in mosques with the aim of sending money for the war effort, while millions suffer from poverty.

Khaled, a resident of Sanaa, confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that most of the residents no longer have anything to spend on their families, and despite this, the group is trying to force them, voluntarily or involuntarily, to collect donations that primarily benefit the group’s leaders and members.

With the reluctance of residents in Sanaa and elsewhere to donate, the Houthi group announced the extension of the campaign for another week, under allegations of supporting “Hezbollah” in Lebanon.

The Houthis have previously launched a series of similar donation campaigns in support of what they call “the Palestinian cause and for relief for those affected by natural disasters,” but the money always goes to the war effort and for the benefit of the group’s senior leaders, their followers, and the families of their dead and wounded.

Informed Yemeni sources revealed, in previous times, that the group’s leaders had stolen huge sums of money, the proceeds of what had been collected through donations for the benefit of Palestine, and transferred it to private accounts