Terrorists and thieves: Houthis looted containers, aid and vehicles

The Iranian-backed Houthi militia on Thursday looted dozens of containers in the port of Hodeidah and transported the contents from the port to the city's Midan al-Olfi area. The militias had looted electrical appliances, cables and various devices before international observers arrived at the port. The Houthis have a long history of banditry, combined with their history of terrorism.

They looted 63 aid ships and confiscated 550 relief packages allocated by humanitarian relief programs to the people of Yemen, said Deputy Minister of Local Administration Abdulsalam Baabood.

In a symposium entitled "The Houthi Project: starvation and impoverishment", Baabood said that the Houthis have made more than 20 million Yemenis in need of assistance, in addition to more than 24 million in need of health services.

Baaboud added that the Houthi militias have not only caused the famine threatening the lives of millions in Yemen, but they also stole aid that is supposed to alleviate the suffering of innocent people.

The United Nations said that hunger, conflict and cholera constitute a deadly triad in Yemen, warning of the spread of cholera at an unprecedented pace throughout Yemen. Jamie McGoldrick, humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said humanitarian organizations needed more than $55 million for the prevention and treatment of cholera in the next six months.

Last July, the Houthis also looted 11 cars provided by the Chinese mission in Yemen to the Republican Hospital Hospital in Sanaa.

Last October, humanitarian and relief aid was looted and sold on the market and some of them were monopolized by Houthi leaders in the governor's office.

Houthi loyalist Amin al-Salahi attacked a ground water project that benefitted four villages in the Directorate of Al-Siyani.

Sources confirmed that Salahi was surveying the land in preparation for selling it amid a state of public discontent with the militias’ acts of sabotage. The lands belonging to the Waqf, cemeteries and citizens' lands in various districts have been controlled by the militia since mid-October 2014.