Al Bayda.. Houthi militia kidnaps hundreds of residents of Hanaka Al Masoud village in Al Quraishiyya

Human rights sources confirmed that the terrorist Houthi militia launched a wide-scale kidnapping campaign after storming the village of Hanakat Al Masoud in Al Qurayshiyah District in Al Bayda Governorate (central Yemen), targeting hundreds of civilians, including children and the elderly.

The sources told "Yemeni Youth Net" that the Houthi campaign kidnapped more than 400 civilians, including a large number of elderly people and children.

The sources added that the militia transferred about 340 abductees to the Rada'a Security Department prison in the Al-Kamb area, and 60 others to the central prison in Rada'a.

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Tribal sources confirm that the Houthi group carried out a wide-scale arrest campaign in Hanakat Al Masoud #Qifah
It affected 400 civilians from the tribe, most of them elderly and children.
About 340 of them were transferred to the prison of the Radaa area administration in Al-Kamb.
60 of them were transferred to the central prison in Rada'a. #Qifa_is_not_Israel_Oh_Houthi

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The sources indicated that the militia forcibly displaced women and children from their homes and looted everything valuable in the homes.

The militia admitted in a statement published by its security media, to the murders and kidnappings that targeted the sons of Hanaka Al Masoud, whom it described as "criminal elements affiliated with ISIS," which is the accusation that the militia usually attaches to civilians and tribes that its crimes target.

Human rights and local sources revealed yesterday, Sunday, that the Houthi militia had booby-trapped, burned, blown up and looted 22 homes after storming the village following a stifling siege and intense shelling that it had launched on the village for more than a week.

According to the sources, the militia carried out acts of revenge, including field executions of a number of the wounded.

On Saturday, the Houthi militias stormed the village after sending a large campaign consisting of dozens of crews and armored vehicles, supported by heavy artillery, a number of tanks and drones, after a week of besieging the village and shelling it randomly and intensively with various heavy and medium weapons.

During its campaign, the terrorist Houthi militia killed and injured a number of civilians, including children and women, according to human rights reports.