New Houthi separatist move

The cloning of the Houthi economic separatist experience has recently developed further, to reach travelers, who will have to pay fees, bribes and obstruct entry to areas controlled by the Houthis, which actually deepens the establishment of the Houthi state affiliated with Iran in northern Yemen. We may witness in the coming period the emergence of a new visa and not passing through without a passport, and it may reach the point of requesting a visa. Speaking of the visa, there is an existing system for travelers to Saada who are not its residents, according to which the militia requires them to find a guarantor and a surety who is known to the Houthis as the traveler and guarantees his movements and hands him over to them upon request.

The Houthi separatist move did not provoke any reaction from the government, civil society organizations, political parties, or Yemeni social and national forces, and it did not turn into public opinion in Yemen, which encourages the Houthis to take more destructive separatist steps to destroy what remains of Yemen, especially its economic activity in light of extreme poverty, famine, disease, epidemics, floods, and the war not officially stopping.

The Houthi move heralds more woes for the Yemeni people, whose middle class has been destroyed and whose wealthy class has emigrated, leaving only millions of toilers who cannot find what will satisfy their hunger. The woes of the forced tearing apart of social structures and family ties may be the most prominent images of these woes, as happened in several countries where separations occurred or where international borders were established in their regions, whether recognized or not.