Al Bayda.. Houthi militias burn and booby-trap 22 houses in Hanaka Al Masoud village, and there are reports of field executions

Local sources in Al-Quraishiyah District, Al-Bayda Governorate, reported on Sunday that the terrorist Houthi militias burned, booby-trapped and looted 22 houses in the village of Hanaka Al Masoud, a day after storming the village northwest of Al-Bayda Governorate (central Yemen).

The Yemeni news agency "Saba" quoted the sources as saying that the terrorist militias supported by the Iranian regime began targeting citizens' homes after storming the village following a stifling siege and intensive shelling that they launched on the village for more than a week.

She explained that since this morning, militia elements have burned five houses and rigged six other houses with explosives in preparation for blowing them up, before tribal mediation intervened and prevented the houses from being blown up, but they are still threatened with being blown up at any moment.

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These clips are not in #Gaza , they are in the village of Hanaka al-Masoud in #Qifah_Rada’a in Al-Bayda.
Videos of some of the Houthi crimes against civilians in this village began to leak.
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The militia also stormed more than eleven other houses in the village and looted all their contents, including jewelry, land ownership documents, real estate, “Basaer,” and other valuables.

The sources warned of the increasing severity of Houthi crimes and violations against the villagers, as the militias continue to cut off communications networks and block internet services from the village and the surrounding villages completely, for fear of exposing their crimes against the residents, which include physical liquidations, kidnappings and forced displacement.

Activists quoted local sources as saying that the Houthi militias committed field executions of civilians, including wounded people, in Hanakat al-Masoud, noting that the bodies are still lying on the doors of the houses in the village.

Yesterday, 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.

115 civil society organizations condemned this crime against civilians and civilian objects in the village of Al-Hanka, where the Al-Masoud tribe is located. A joint statement by the organizations said that the Houthi militias prevented the injured from receiving medical treatment, in addition to destroying and burning a number of civilian objects and places of worship, and displacing hundreds of families days after imposing a brutal siege on the villagers.

The organizations' statement stated that the Houthi militia cut off water, food and medicine from the village's residents, in conjunction with the continued bombing by drones, which led to a catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian situation, especially among children, women and the elderly.

The statement said: "These crimes, which include premeditated murder, siege, forced displacement, and targeting of civilian objects and places of worship, come in the context of a military escalation by the Houthis on various fronts, coinciding with the deterioration of the humanitarian situation."

Civil society organizations in Yemen called on the Houthis to immediately lift the siege and stop the military attacks targeting civilians in the region. They also called on the international community and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop these violations.