"It is not excluded that he was killed in regional conflicts." The coalition denies the allegations of a Houthi leader regarding his brother's body

The spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, denied the allegations of the Houthi leader Hussein Al-Ezzi, that he had recently received the body of his brother Fares Al-Ezzi, describing them as misleading.

Al-Maliki told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that “what was stated in the Houthi leader’s statements and circulated by websites affiliated with the group is inaccurate and lacks credibility,” explaining that “the process of recovering and handing over the bodies took place in June 2023, and through it the bodies of 9 Saudi forces martyrs and 20 Yemeni army martyrs were recovered, as well as the return and handover of the bodies of 57 Houthi fighters who were killed on the border.”

Al-Ezzi, the former deputy foreign minister of the internationally unrecognized coup government in Sana'a, posted an obituary on his account on the "X" platform, accompanied by a picture of his brother, announcing that there would be no condolences, under the pretext of his concern not to distract the group's supporters from the war against Israel, as he claims.

His body has been with the coalition since the moment of his martyrdom in early 2018.
Recently, thank God, the honorable body was recovered, and today we are escorting him to his final resting place in his pure country.
Martyr Fares, may God have mercy on him
One of those who did well in implementing qualitative operations
(From the third until the moment of glorious martyrdom on the northern border front) pic.twitter.com/D6ZnOIxWvo

— Hussein Al-Ezzi (@hussinalezzi5) December 2, 2024

When asked about the motives behind choosing to announce it at this time, the coalition spokesman said: “Such statements are misleading, and may have been announced for internal reasons related to the Houthis, knowing that the name mentioned in the statement was not among the names submitted during the negotiations to recover the bodies, and it is not unlikely that this name was among those killed in regional conflicts.”

Al-Maliki stressed that the coalition "deals with the issue of prisoners and detainees and the recovery of the bodies of fighters as a purely humanitarian issue that should not be politicized by all parties, taking into consideration the values of the tolerant Islamic Sharia, humanitarian principles, and cultural and social norms."

Source: Middle East