The Houthis surged toward the Bab Al-Mandab Strait after bleeding Yemen, exhausting Yemenis and unsettling the neighborhood. More than one opportunity for reconciliation within the embrace of the state was offered to them but they insisted on residing atop the rubble of its institutions, placing their regional program before their country’s interest. They left Yemen’s legitimate authorities no option but comprehensive action against them, which is what President Rashad Al-Alimi announced on Sund
