A stifling fuel crisis strikes the Houthi regions

The areas under the control of the Houthi militia are witnessing an unprecedented explosion of a suffocating fuel crisis, threatening to paralyze the daily movement and drag the provinces to the edge of complete paralysis, according to local sources, residents in Sanaa and a number of governorates.
The sources confirmed that the capital, Sana'a, the governorates of Ibb, Al -Hodeidah and Saada, suffer from a near -complete closure of the gas stations, at a time when warnings escalated from an expected catastrophe even through accounts calculated on the Houthi group itself, which had to recognize indirectly of the exacerbation of the situation.
According to the sources, the Houthi militia is heading to impose strict restrictions on fuel distribution, which includes the codification of packing for each car by only 40 liters every two weeks, within a strict mechanism that the residents say will deepen their daily suffering, and strike the transportation sector and basic services, including hospitals, which depend on oil derivatives to operate generators.
Although the Houthi oil company denies the existence of a crisis, the news coming from the governorates confirms that the group’s authorities are preparing to impose a policy of public legalization during the coming days, in a step that reveals the size of the suffocation taking place in the fuel supply.
In Ibb governorate, local sources confirmed that a number of home gas filling stations closed their doors in front of the citizens, after announcing the depletion of stocks, which threatens a worsening crisis that extends into the homes, where millions of residents depend on home gas for cooking.
These developments come on the impact of an American military escalation, which is the most violent, where the American forces have launched a series of air strikes since the middle of last month, a series of air strikes on the Ras Issa oil port, in Al -Hodeidah Governorate, west of Yemen.
The US Central Command says that the attacks aim to "deprive the Houthis of the illegal revenues in which they fund their military operations and attacks on international ships."
American strikes are seen as part of a new strategy aimed at strangling the sources of financing the Houthis, especially from the oil and fuel revenues, which formed a vital financial artery for the group for years, in light of its continued control over the ports of Hodeidah, Al -Salif and Ras Issa.
Long queues of cars and families were seen endlessly in front of the gas stations, in Sana'a, Ibb, Saada and Hodeidah, in an atmosphere of anticipation and anxiety from the explosion of the situation to catastrophic levels in the coming days.