The Yemeni Defense minister just reported that al-Houthis fighters, a Shia led militia who renounced the government back in 2004 and claim to want to restore the ancestral rule of the Imams over its territories, clashed with al-Islah bully boyz in al-Jawf province.Since the state institutions meltdown, the group has grown bolder in its advances, using the power vacuum left by the political crisis and popular uprising as it knows that the government forces are concentrating their attention elsewhere.
About a week ago, residents in Hajjah province north-west of Sana', the capital warned that the sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians were seizing towns and villages, making their way towards the seaport of Midi to secure an opening towards the red Sea and ferry military equipment from outside Yemen.
Al-Houthis which stronghold is situated in Sa'ada, a northern Yemeni province which shares borders with the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia, are now fighting off rustics loyal to al-Islah as they are seen to be their ideological nemesis. Al-Islah is a pro-Sunni Islamic political party with little tolerance to the Shia belief system, since they viewed as flawed.
"Ten people from the opposition Islamic Islah Party and Shiite Houthi rebels were killed and several others injured in festivities that erupted after Houthis found out a member of the Islah Party wearing an boom belt and killed him before he attempted to blow himself up during Houthis' annual religious festival of Eid al-Ghadeer in al-Mutoon district in Al-Jawf," said the ministry in a statement posted on its website.
Despite having agreed to a truce a while back as both al-Islah and al-Houthis were working at toppling President, recent weeks saw a resurgence in armed festivities.
Interestingly, al-Houthis' media office is denying the allegation in block, arguing that they had uncovered a jacket wallah plot targeting their supporters in al-Mutoon district.
"An unidentified person tried to join a procession of Houthi supporters en route to celebrate the day of al-Ghadeer festival, and when the procession's escorts intercepted him, they found a wire of an boom belt concealed with him," read a blurb. The added that they believed the attack was commandeered by the American.