YouTube terminates18 Houthi channels that incite violence and promote sectarian ideas
English - Wednesday 19 July 2023 الساعة 05:24 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, exclusive:
arlier this week, the YouTube administration terminated 18 channels affiliated with the Houthi militia - Iran's arm in Yemen - through which it promotes its sectarian ideas and incites violence and hatred.
And the militia media stated, in a statement, Monday, that this is not the first time as YouTube administration has terminated a number of channels in late January 2021, but they were signed up again. According to the statement, these channels had more than 500,000 subscribers, more than 90 million views, and more than 7,000 video clips.
The Houthi militia's YouTube channels, likewise its pages on social media, publish content that incites hatred and violence and attracts supporters of its sectarian ideas, without observing the rules and regulations of electronic publishing.
This step by the "YouTube" platform comes weeks after the statement in which the United States of America, Britain and France warned the Houthi militia to take measures that would increase its isolation from the world unless it changed its hostile behavior towards Yemenis and neighboring countries, and its media and field escalation in the context of the war that broke out in the country after the militia coup against the legitimate authority in September 2014.
In a related context, the Minister of Information in the legitimate government, Muammar Al-Eryani, welcomed the step taken by the "YouTube" platform and other platforms, pointing out that the decision to close the militia's channels and pages came in response to the Yemeni government's demands to close the pages that impersonate the official media for their involvement in terrorist activities.
Al-Eryani said, in a tweet on Twitter: "The government warned that these platforms are no different from those run by terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda," describing the behavior of the Houthi militia in its areas of control towards the media as having turned Sana'a into a "desertized capital devoid of journalists."
Al-Eryani called on all international platforms and satellites to ban TV channels, websites and accounts affiliated with Iran's arm in Yemen, welcoming any decision in this direction.
The legitimate government threatened about two weeks ago to cancel the facilities it had provided to the Houthi militia under the armistice agreement concluded in April 2022, and last week, flights from Sana'a airport to Jordan were reduced from six weekly flights to three.
Observers of Yemeni affairs expect the legitimate government, the countries of the Arab coalition and the international community to restore the restrictions that were imposed on the militia since the beginning of the war, as a result of its lack of respect for peace efforts and its continuous escalation to resume the war.
