The coalition spokesman, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, showed videos confirming the presence of leaders of the Hezbollah militia in Yemen.
In one of the video clips, a leader of the Lebanese militia appears, talking to the leader of the Houthi militia and the head of its military intelligence, Abu Ali al-Hakim, about controlling the province of Hodeidah and the Red Sea coast in western Yemen.
In another clip, the Lebanese leader appears installing explosives on a drone before launching it towards its targets. The Arab coalition stated that the incident took place at Sanaa airport.
The leader said that the reason for the arrival of the Yemeni forces to Hodeidah airport and other areas in the city of Hodeidah was due to “differences between the Houthi leaders,” adding: “If not for the truce that occurred under the auspices of the United Nations, Hodeidah would have fallen from our hands.”
And the Hezbollah leader pointed out during his speech that “the Syrian war is nearing an end, and the mujahideen (he means the elements of the party and groups loyal to Iran), most of them will come to Yemen.”
The leader of Hezbollah’s militia explains that the Red Sea is the way for support to arrive, adding: “If we lose the sea, we will lose support and the mujahideen will not be able to reach us. We have begun to arrange our ranks and mobilize the mujahideen to us.”
areas of intervention
The Houthis and Hezbollah are two organizations that fall within what is known as an Iranian-led axis, which also includes: the Popular Mobilization Militias in Iraq.
Evidence in the past confirmed the Lebanese Hezbollah’s involvement in Yemen, including the presence of the party’s experts in Sana’a and Marib, in addition to Iranian weapons technology.
It is believed that the Lebanese organization provides support to the Houthis in many areas:
Military planning: The party provides planning to the Houthis in military operations. Lebanese experts have benefited from the battles in Syria, and most of those who went to Yemen participated in those battles. Lebanese leaders and experts go under various titles such as “Abu Mustafa and Abu Salma”.
Military training: Hezbollah militia experts and leaders train the Houthis, especially with regard to explosive devices, anti-missiles, drones, and cross-border operations. Some of these are trained inside Yemen, while others are trained in southern Lebanon. Most of them are Houthi fighters who were wounded in the battles and transported via United Nations planes or smuggled by land outside Yemen.
Hezbollah experts are supervising the construction of laboratories for improvised explosive devices and the re-installation of ballistic missiles and drones, to ensure that these laboratories are not damaged by coalition airstrikes.
Weapons smuggling: Hezbollah buys weapons from factories and arms dealers from Latin America, where the organization has great influence. It also works to smuggle weapons through Africa to the other bank of the Red Sea before transporting them by wooden boats to Yemen, except for weapons that pass through The Arabian Sea from Iran.
Military media: The role of Hezbollah in this field has emerged through training workers in the media sector, by subjecting them to courses and graduating them later, and Houthi channels such as Al-Masirah and Al-Satsah are broadcast from Lebanon.
Iran sees in Yemen an opportunity to push the Arab coalition into a long-term war of attrition, and for that it provides military and political support to the Houthis, according to Arab and Western countries and experts from the United Nations. Tehran has long denied its support for the Houthis, despite evidence confirming this.
The intervention of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in Yemen has prolonged the war and increased the spirit of hatred and sectarianism in the northern governorates, which are still under Houthi control, which are generally used to launch missiles from residential areas, and the Houthi militia imposes levies to support its fighters.
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