The Houthi group recently sent hundreds of its security personnel, whom it brought in from various areas in Ibb Governorate, towards the governorates of Taiz, Al-Hodeidah, and Al-Dhalea, after it failed to mobilize more new recruits to join the fronts, according to what informed sources reported to Asharq Al-Awsat.< /p>

The sources revealed that the group pushed groups of its security personnel working in departments, departments, and security units in the center of Ibb Governorate (Ibb city), and in 22 of its directorates, towards the lines of contact on the Hodeidah, Taiz, and Al-Dhalea fronts.

In previous days, the Houthi coup plotters had sent dozens of security personnel, some of them affiliated with the so-called “General Security” units under the group’s control in Ibb, as new human reinforcements towards Hodeidah and Al-Dhalea, which border Ibb Governorate from the west and east.

Witnesses in Ibb reported to Asharq Al-Awsat that they saw Houthi security vehicles carrying members wearing security uniforms passing through the areas of Jableh Junction and Al-Najd Al-Ahmar, south of the governorate, and the western ring line of Ibb city, heading towards Taiz Governorate (south), and on the main road heading towards To the coastal governorate of Hodeidah (west).

Witnesses confirmed that most of the members who were transferred by the group to the fronts were young men, as it had in previous times attracted dozens of them to its ranks under the pretext of engaging them to work within its security services to suppress any protest demonstrations.

Failure of recruitment campaigns

Sources in Ibb Governorate (193 kilometers south of Sanaa) attribute the reason why the Houthi group resorted to supplying its fronts with its security personnel, to the failure of the recruitment campaigns launched by the group in recent days to mobilize civilians and tribesmen in Ibb to the fronts.

The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the new reinforcements come as a result of unprecedented Houthi fears of any “anticipated movements of government forces towards the areas under the group’s control.”

This was preceded - according to the sources - by the group subjecting officials in its security services in Ibb to mobilization under the name of “awareness security” programmes, and enrolling them in military training within the framework of the so-called “Al-Aqsa Flood” courses, in preparation for pushing them towards the fronts under claims of supporting the Palestinians in Gaza.

The reinforcements of the Houthi coup plotters coincided with the formation of mobilization and mobilization committees at the neighborhood and neighborhood levels in Ibb Governorate and the rest of the cities under its control, in order to supply their fronts with more recruits.

The group, according to sources, continues to direct its invitations to tribal elders and neighborhood officials in Ibb, and a number of its directorates, to continue launching mobilization courses and work to mobilize fighters under the banner of “Supporting Palestine.”

Prisoners and marginalized

A security source in Ibb revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the group’s recent reinforcements from the governorate towards neighboring areas were preceded several weeks ago by sending dozens of black marginalized people working in the sanitation sector and prisoners who had been released to the battle fronts. .

According to the security source, who requested to remain anonymous, the group’s new mobilizations come as compensation for members who fled the fronts after they decided to leave fighting with the group and return to their areas. As a result of the racial discrimination they faced at the contact lines.

The Houthi mobilization comes at a time when Ibb Governorate and the rest of the cities under the group’s control are still suffering from a severe living, economic and security deterioration, accompanied by an unusual rise in the level of violations against civilians, which are behind gangs linked to Houthi leaders.