An official report reveals the Houthis violations in the mosques in Yemen‏

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An official report revealed that 29 mosques were completely destroyed or bombed by the Houthis since they took over Yemen in several provinces in 2014 till 2016 .

Adding that 24 others were severely targeted and part of them were destroyed.

The report issued by the communication program held by Yemeni religious scholars stated that 146 mosques were transformed into military barracks and sniper’s spots

The report also added that the Houthis turned the mosques into depots for heavy and medium weaponry, the mosques’ squares to training camps and mosques’ yards to places for Qat chewing and shisha. 

It disclosed that there are Houthi-Iranian arrangements aiming to target mosques, pointing out that the Houthis brought in press photographers of Iranian Alam channel and Lebanese Hezbollah al-Manar channel to cover the blowing up of Dar al-Hadeeth Center in Saadah.

The report also pointed out that the mosques that had food to be distributed to poor neighboring areas were stolen by militiamen who also looted microphones, speakers and other equipment.

Houthi militias imposed preachers by force in number of mosques to spreed the Iranian thoughts and to blur everything related to teach the Koran and the Sunnah