The Houthi militias have been going through a silent crisis since the killing of their founder, Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and the rise of his brother, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, to lead the rebel movement. Tribal leader Abdullah Aydah al-Razami, who was a friend of Hussein al-Houthi, refused to recognize the new leadership, and was followed by his son Yahya al-Razami, who leads armed tribal groups called the “Hamdan Axis” on the Saudi border and affiliated with the powerful “Hamdan bin Zaid” tribes in Saada. Despite the latter’s appointment as a brigadier general in the Houthi army and head of the negotiating delegation taking place in the Jordanian capital (Amman) with the legitimate Yemeni government, he still enjoys independence with his forces, part of which are deployed on the outskirts of the capital, Sana’a, and do not follow the Houthi military and administrative hierarchy, which made him a source of great concern for the group. He refused the group’s leader’s orders to transfer his forces to the governorate of “Taiz” - central southern Yemen.