2 Houthi commanders given terrorist designation by US
An office affiliated to the US Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on two senior commanders of the Houthi militia.
The sanctions, included
in two separate resolutions, designated Houthi commander Youssef al-Medani as
an international terrorist who participated in breaching the truce in the western
port city of Hudaydah.
The office also imposed
sanctions on Houthi commander Mohamed al-Ghamari, considering him a threat to
peace in Yemen. Al-Ghamari, it said, commanded attacks on Marib city.
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Al-Ghamari is the chief
of staff of the Houthi militia. He is the wanted person no. 16 on the list of
the Legitimacy Coalition.
He was raised in the
western Yemeni province of Hajjah. He aided Houthi leader Abdel Malak al-Houthi
when he was wanted and hiding in the northern Yemeni city of Saada, a
stronghold of the Houthi militia.
Al-Ghamari worked as a
Houthi supervisor in Hajjah in the past. He was then promoted to field
commander. He was then appointed as the security chief in Yemeni capital
Sana'a. He studied at the Hussein Badreddine al-Houthi Institute in 2003.
Al-Ghamari travelled to
southern Lebanon in 2012, where he was given military training by officers from
the Hezbollah militia, according to the United Nations.
He commanded the latest
brutal Houthi attack on Marib. The attack made the humanitarian crisis in the
city worse, the US Department of the Treasury said.
Al-Ghamari succeeded Abdel Khaliq al-Houthi, a brother of Houthi leader Abdel Malak al-Houthi, as a commander of the Marib front.
