Extremist gunmen affiliated with the Islah Party, the political arm of the Yemeni Brotherhood, spoiled the joy of Yemenis in the besieged Taiz governorate, in the southwest of the country, by launching an attack on the attendees of an artistic event in the sixth "Our Eid Taiz" festival, which concluded its third day on Saturday evening, at the Martyrs' Stadium, following an incitement campaign. launched by extremist leaders and elements.

Local sources said that a number of people were wounded in the festival as a result of gunmen shooting indiscriminately at the participants with the aim of thwarting the festival. The shooting caused panic and panic among the participants in the festival, especially women and children.

According to the sources, the incident came after chants in the name of Brigadier General Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, head of the Political Bureau of the National Resistance and a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, who sponsored the festival by some of the masses, which was not liked by some of those affiliated with the Brotherhood's Islah Party.

Al-Ghad Al-Yemeni website quoted a security source in Taiz governorate as saying that the armed attack on an artistic and honorary ceremony for the artist, Muhammad Mohsen Atroush, on Saturday evening in Taiz, was attended by members of the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization.

The source, who preferred not to be named, added that these elements arrived on Saturday morning at the headquarters of the Special Tasks Battalion of the Brotherhood in the city center of Taiz, coming from the Turbah area to break up the artistic celebration with live bullets and disperse the crowds who came to participate in the ceremony that started on the first day of Eid al-Adha.

The local authorities in Taiz accused those they considered "morally out of sorts" of causing chaos in the festival, which concluded in the province, on Saturday, while honoring the well-known Yemeni artist, Muhammad Atroush.

Video footage broadcast by Yemeni activists on social media showed the crowd chanting "Tariq... Tariq" while the gunmen fired heavily, forcing the crowd to stampede on top of each other.

The activists considered the crime that occurred at the end of the joy of Eid al-Adha a "terrorist and cowardly act," calling on the Presidency Council to intervene urgently to hold accountable and punish the perpetrators of the crime that left wounded and spread fear and panic among women and children.

The Brotherhood's storming of the Martyrs' Stadium and the dissolution of the artistic celebration would not have come without the public incitement campaign by militants of the Brotherhood, in which they accuse the Culture Bureau in Taiz of spreading "mingling" and "dissolution."

"The fabrication of what happened at the end of the Taiz festival was due to incitement and dark mobilization," said the Director General of the Culture Bureau in Taiz, Abdul Khaleq Saif, in a post on his Facebook page.

He added that some "infiltrators from the Task Force, who are morally out of touch, fabricated this madness and extremism against us and against the fans of the festival, because they chanted the name of Tariq Saleh, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, while honoring the people's artist, Atroush."

He pointed out that the "rebels" assaulted the crowd present at the festival, injuring some of them.

He emphasized that the honoring and celebration took place in the fullest way for the artist Atroush, calling on the security services to take strict measures against "those who did this, arrested them and everyone behind them, and stopped the wheel of incitement against national and political symbols and against cultural activities in Taiz."

The Brotherhood's storming of the Martyrs' Stadium and the dissolution of the artistic celebration would not have come without the public incitement campaign by militants of the Brotherhood, in which they accuse the Culture Bureau in Taiz of spreading "mingling" and "dissolution."

"The fabrication of what happened at the end of the Taiz festival was due to incitement and dark mobilization," said the Director General of the Culture Bureau in Taiz, Abdul Khaleq Saif, in a post on his Facebook page.

He added that some "infiltrators from the Task Force, who are morally out of touch, fabricated this madness and extremism against us and against the fans of the festival, because they chanted the name of Tariq Saleh, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, while honoring the people's artist, Atroush."

He pointed out that the "rebels" assaulted the crowd present at the festival, injuring some of them.

He emphasized that the honoring and celebration took place in the fullest way for the artist Atroush, calling on the security services to take strict measures against "those who did this, seized them, and everyone behind them, and stopped the wheel of incitement."

In the context, Brigadier General Tariq Saleh made a phone call with the governor of Taiz Governorate, Nabil Shamsan, to check on the health of the wounded who were injured as a result of the Brotherhood's attack on the sixth Eidna Taiz festival.

Saleh, who is the nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, succeeded in recent years in imposing himself as a difficult figure in the political equation in Yemen, especially in Taiz Governorate, which angered the Brotherhood, who pushed unruly elements to storm the celebration.

The leaders of the Islah Party do not hide their concern about the growing influence of Saleh in Taiz, which for decades has been the center of gravity of the Brotherhood.

The member of the Presidential Leadership Council instructed the speedy investigation of the incident, the prosecution of the perpetrators and their referral to the competent authorities, and he also directed that the wounded be cared for and treated until they recover.

Tariq Saleh praised the interaction of the people of Taiz with the Eid festival, in which one of the most prominent veteran Yemeni artists, the artist Muhammad Mohsen Atroush, was celebrated.

For his part, the head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, directed a speedy investigation into the unfortunate events that accompanied the Taiz Art Festival.

The official Yemeni News Agency quoted an official source in the office of the Presidency of the Republic as saying that Al-Alimi asked the governor of Taiz to form a committee to investigate the unfortunate events, and to arrest those responsible and anyone suspected of spoiling the joy of Eid during the festival dedicated to honoring the artist Atroush.

The directives included ensuring the treatment of the wounded, reparation for any damages caused by these unfortunate events, and ensuring that they would not recur.

Taiz is suffering under the weight of Houthi terrorism, which has besieged it unjustly for 9 years, and under the influence of the princes of the terrorist Brotherhood organization inside the city, based on their control over the military and security authorities.