The UN has punished three Houthi for attacks in the Caribbean and attacks in Saudi Arabia United Nations News

The Security Council has imposed a freeze on the global assets of three major Houthi rebels and a travel ban.

The United Nations Security Council has blacklisted three Houthi rebels from Yemen in connection with cross-border attacks in Saudi Arabia and fighting in the country’s northern stronghold.

In a statement on Wednesday, the UK said it had proposed sanctions for killing and injuring civilians in Houthi’s attacks in Saudi Arabia, and for trying to cut off access to humanitarian aid in the central desert city of Marib. use of child soldiers.

The three rebels added to the UN blacklist of sanctions include Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari Houthi’s chief of staff, Saleh Mesfer, Assistant Defense Minister Saleh Al Shaer, and Yusuf Al-Madani, a prominent Houthi force leader.

According to the UN list, Al-Ghamari “plays a leading role in organizing the military efforts of Houthis that are directly threatening the peace, security and stability of Yemen, including Marib, as well as cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia.”

Al Shaer, who is in charge of logistics, “helped the Houthis to obtain smuggled weapons and weapons,” and as a “Judicial Guard” participated directly in the widespread and illegal possession of property and entities of detained individuals. Forced to take refuge in Houthis or outside Yemen. the UN.

Al-Madani said he is “the commanding force in Hodeida, Hajjah, Al Mahwit and Raymah,” engaged in activities that threaten Yemen’s peace, security and stability.

UN sanctions have ordered all countries to impose an immediate ban on freezing and traveling on the property of the three Houthis.

Their increase brings the number of UN-sanctioned Yemenis to nine, including Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi movement, and former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is said to have died in December 2017.

Yemen has been embroiled in civil war since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa and much of the country’s north, forcing an internationally recognized government to flee south and then Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi-led coalition went to war in March 2015, backed by the US, to try to restore President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to power.

Despite the relentless air campaign and ground fighting, the war has largely worsened, creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The US has since suspended direct involvement in the conflict.

In early 2020, the Houthis launched an attack in the mostly government-run Marib province, costing the lives of thousands of young people and displacing thousands of civilians as they had to live and relocate in constant fear of violence.

He says rebel groups aligned with Iran are fighting a corrupt system.