The Houthi militia continues to mobilize children to summer centers and train them in the use of weapons and combat techniques, as well as moving UN aid to these headquarters.
Al-Arabiya sources confirmed that most of the children recruited are the sons of the Houthis who were killed on the front lines, and with them the sons of poor families who are forced to push their children into the Houthi camps in exchange for help and food baskets.
As for those who train them, the sources explained that the Houthi guards train children in combat training and the use of weapons, as well as drop them into lectures to mobilize them for extremist and sectarian ideas.
She also said that among the activities and programs implemented at these summer centers is the organization of group visits for young people to the cemeteries of fallen militants, as well as the graves and shrines of their leaders and symbols, including the grave of Houthi leader Saleh Al-Sammad in Al-Sabin Square in the center of Sanaa.
The police also transferred a large amount of emergency aid provided by international organizations to the summer centers through a number of directorates affiliated with the Ministries of Education, Health, Youth and Sports in the unrecognized coup government, and the distribution of aid provided by UNICEF within the summer centers was monitored.
Notably, a senior military spokesman for the Houthi militia had previously reported recruiting 18,000 children. Former child soldiers also confirmed that boys as young as 10 were recruited.
The United Nations indicated that about 3,500 children were vetted for recruitment.
In addition, many Yemeni aid organizations have confirmed that thousands of children have been forced into the fighting through several means adopted by the militias, be it intimidation or seduction, or extortion. She pointed out that those who survived death on the front lines were subjected to horrific shocks and even rape and persecution.
