23 Facts About Houthi movement

The Houthi movement is a predominately Zaidi Shia force, whose leadership is drawn largely from the Houthi tribe.

Houthis have a complex relationship with Yemen's Sunni Muslims; the movement has discriminated against Sunnis, but recruited and allied with them.

Formation of the Houthi movement organisations has been described by Adam Baron of the European Council on Foreign Relations as a reaction to foreign intervention.

On 20 January 2015, Houthi movement rebels seized the presidential palace in the capital.

Houthi movement told Al-Jazeera that there was communication between Saleh, UAE and a number of other countries such as Russia and Jordan through encrypted messages.

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The alliance between Saleh and the Houthi movement broke down in late 2017, with armed clashes occurring in Sanaa from 28 November.

The movement was called by their opponents and foreign media "Houthis".

Houthi movement follows a mixed ideology with religious, Yemeni nationalist, and big tent populist tenets, imitating Hezbollah.

In forging alliances, the Houthi movement has been opportunistic, at times allying with countries it later declared its enemy such as the United States.

In general, the Houthi movement has centered its belief system on the Zaydi branch of Islam, a sect of Islam almost exclusively present in Yemen.

Since its foundation, the Houthi movement has often acted as advocates for Zaydi revivalism in Yemen.

In 2018, the Houthi movement leadership proposed the establishment of a non-partisan transitional government composed of technocrats.

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi movement criticized the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as "betrayal" against the Palestinians and the cause of pan-Arabism.

The movement has allowed radio stations to continue broadcast music and content which the Houthis view as too Western, but banned certain songs and harassed artists such as wedding musicians.

In one instance which generated much publicity, the Houthi movement policemen conditioned that music could be played at a wedding party if it was not broadcast by loadspeakers; when the party guests did not conform to this demand, the main wedding singer was arrested.

Houthi movement officials have denied any involvement in the harassment, asserting that under Houthi movement control, Jews in Yemen would be able to live and operate freely as any other Yemeni citizen.

Al-Houthi movement has said through his fascicles: “Arab countries and all Islamic countries will not be safe from Jews except through their eradication and the elimination of their entity.

The format and content of the group's leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi movement's televised speeches are said to have been modeled after those of Hezbollah's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah.

On 19 May 2017 Saudi Arabia intercepted a Houthi movement-fired ballistic missile targeting a deserted area south of the Saudi capital and most populous city Riyadh.

The Houthi movement militias have captured dozens of tanks and masses of heavy weaponry from the Yemeni Armed Forces.

The Houthi movement claimed responsibility, though the United States has asserted that Iran was behind the attack.

Smyth claimed that there is a strong bond between Iran and the Houthi movement uprising working to overthrow the government in Yemen.

Human Rights Watch documented 16 cases in which Houthi movement authorities held people unlawfully, in large part to extort money from relatives or to exchange them for people held by opposing forces.