Discussion on the Crisis in Taiz

Bring me twenty girls from Taiz and show them.

By name and photo, and document his accusations.

Audio and video,

just as Malak documents

everything in audio and video.

I challenge you.

Go ahead, Malak.

He said he'd bring twenty girls from Taiz,

and I have conclusive proof.

From history and the facts,

how Taiz has been treated today.

Taiz has been besieged from within by

armed groups in the city, and there is evidence from

your own people saying that the road was cut off.

Fine, that's one, and statements issued by security

and by your army say the same thing,

that Taiz is besieged.

This is the issue of the siege, the issue of gas not getting in.

Gas for Taiz comes from Marib. Before

the Mokha incident and so on, inside

Taiz city, we couldn't get a gas cylinder,

it would be confiscated

and traded to Houthi areas and Al-Hawdhayn areas

so they could sell it to us there for around 50 Saudi riyals,

seven thousand old riyals,

and sell it to us for 11,000.

You couldn't find it, I mean, no—

25 Saudi riyals. We suffered from a gas crisis.

Bus owners are also documenting

Taiz media figures by name.

They've created a gas crisis in our city.

And who—who is making this move?

These are war profiteers in Taiz,

the Islah Party and not just the Islah Party

alone. The forces and armed groups that control

the city by force of arms. The Houthis, the Houthis say today,

“We pay them the khums, that's it,

okay, we were inside the city, paying

a ten percent tax on flour.”

And on potatoes and water and

electricity and everything.

What is this advanced, clever intelligence for?

So you can confiscate

and trade in oil and electricity.

The oil comes to you from the liberated areas

or those under the legitimate

government's control, and so does gas.

And water, water wells.

You used the Houthis as an excuse for

the water crisis Taiz suffered.

Today, you repeat the same problem,

saying the water problem

is

that the Houthis enter the tanks,

while the wells are inside

Wadi al-Qadi, Dhi Naqd, and Qawlat Sinan.

And Barbasha— its name is Barbasha.

Every well is made up of spring wells.

Assets under the control of

Islah forces are being traded.

There, they sell you water for 100,000. As for flour,

inside Taiz, traders have enough to supply it.

Today, they say Taiz is under siege, under siege.

They bring flour to it

inside weapons.

What can we do for you inside Taiz?

The people of Al- Turba have suffered

greatly and complained even more about

the power of armed groups inside Al- Turba.

Land theft, the killing of children and civilians,

and they complained about theft

inside the…

They have surplus weapons.

Another problem with weapons, as you have heard,

is that the girl—uh, Hayat Al-Dhibhani, buys weapons.

The weapons are numbered and documented

by the Coalition, not even by

us. Every bullet has a code, and every pistol and every

automatic weapon has a code.

Then you come and say you collected it.

Just look at the Islah members' charade.

They collect charitable donations and go

after merchants under surveillance cameras.

With the money, they claim it is to support the fronts or for food

supplies, and so on. Taiz today is living in a state of

great chaos, not from within,

and anyone who opposes them in this way

Speech is constantly attacked and insulted if

he is away, meaning military cha—

Have you, Malak, been exposed to any risks in Taiz

because of the facts you speak about?

When I first started speaking,

I merely asked, where is the unity

of the ranks,

and why did the strategic al- Numan Front

fall to the Houthis within days?

It did not fall even when there was no—

fighting. The war was in Mokha.

They surrendered the al- Numan Front

and were besieged inside the city to protect

themselves with civilians. That is what they did to us.

And as soon as I asked where the unity of the ranks was

that you talk about, and why the al- Numan Front fell,

there was defamation

character assassination, accusations of treason,

and vile insults that make one's skin crawl.

Besides, they published my name

and address, where I live, and that I live in their area.

This is unacceptable.

I was stabbed and threatened by the se—

curity forces, and I have proof, by name,

by the army, by Salem al-Das by name, by al-Kadhi

And Ahmed, his son, before bringing in security forces,

instead of protecting

the city from the Houthi enemy, so to speak,

they began threatening the city's residents.

They began aiming their weapons,

instead of aiming them at the Houthi enemy, at

the chests of its own people, women, children,

and civilians. Either you're with us or you're...

All right, then how did you manage to escape?

This is a testimony to the truth and to the martyr Majdi.

Majdi was at the eastern front, at the checkpoint.

He said, "Why are you insulting

the angel? He's not an angel from among us."

They killed him just for those words.

Two people merely said, “Why insult him,

and why intervene this way, even if

we disagree with him politically? Bring proof.” They kill him

then promptly say the Houthis

killed him at the Eastern crossing

inside the city of Taiz.

What corruption are you talking about? Assassinations of sons

he is one of them,

they have positions on the Eastern Front

at the crossing, not letting the Houthis enter or

listening to the Houthis about passage, you kill

your sons. Taiz’s situation is

like a snake swallowing itself.

Most of the martyrs who fell were among the finest young men

They kill them from behind before the Houthis reach them,

or airstrikes kill them. Whoever doesn't

die first from an airstrike dies from falling rocks

on civilians and poor people in the village.

This is Taiz. Bring me all their media people,

all those corrupt ones,

to disprove these two facts with evidence.

I was subjected to insults and abuse, and they

would have gone further if I hadn't gone somewhere safe.

Thank God, may He save us from all this. Secondly,

one of them said he was standing with

them at the front supposedly to fight

the Houthis. Why? They killed his father.

Look, the

Islahists brought me someone

from security or the army.

There isn't a single one with you.

They're all young men, all volunteers.

They're all carrying weapons,

supposedly to protect themselves from the Houthis,

and they're killed from

behind, supposedly because the Houthis have them surrounded.

They're surrounded from within.

What do war profiteers do? They besiege citizens

economically, taking their money unlawfully and without justification.

You besiege them through food and drink,

raising fuel prices on them

and water.

Get your media due, Captain,

when you're not even a real name.

All of them, and I challenge them to deny this fact and the crisis

documented by your media months ago proves that you are war

merchants. You experienced the city before,

and you besiege me today.