Houthi militia changes name of school in Mahwit after Iranian militia leader

The Iranian-backed Houthi militia changed the name of a school in the northern Yemeni province of Al Mahwit to the name of a leader of a pro-Iranian militia in the region, as part of a wide-scale sectarian campaign targeting the educational process in areas under its control.

The governor of Al Mahwit province in the legitimate authorities, Saleh Sumai, said that the Houthi militia changed the name of the "Abu Nashwan" school in the city of Shibam Kawkaban to the "Hassan Nasrallah" school, in reference to the former leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militia, who was killed in late September in an Israeli raid.

Sumai explained in a post on his Facebook page that the school’s previous name, “Abu Nashwan,” was a nickname for former Yemeni President Ibrahim al-Hamdi.

Throughout the years of the coup, the Houthi militia has deliberately changed the names of schools, streets, and university classrooms in the governorates under its control to the names of its dead and the names of sectarian symbols, instead of the names of Yemeni symbols, revolutionaries, republicans, and other national and Islamic names, as part of systematic "sectarianization" operations in the areas under its control.