{"id":16259,"date":"2026-05-22T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/yemenis-phone-balances-become-fuel-for-houthi-war-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:40:23","slug":"yemenis-phone-balances-become-fuel-for-houthi-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/yemenis-phone-balances-become-fuel-for-houthi-war-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemenis\u2019 Phone Balances Become Fuel for Houthi War Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2252069300-scaled-e1770207880372.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In Yemen\u2019s Houthi-controlled north, the war economy now reaches into the smallest places: a shopkeeper\u2019s ledger, a family\u2019s food budget, and even the balance on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/news\/how-yemenis-pockets-became-a-lifeline-for-financing-cross-border-wars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khaled Al-Ansi reports<\/a> that telecommunications companies in areas controlled by the Houthis have become a key financial channel for raising money for the group\u2019s military operations, including missile and drone programs. The sums requested from individual subscribers may be tiny\u2014often just 100 Yemeni rials\u2014but across millions of users, those micro-collections can become a powerful revenue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/mideast-daily-news\/yemenis-phone-balances-become-fuel-for-houthi-war-machine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Yemen\u2019s Houthi-controlled north, the war economy now reaches into the smallest places: a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen","category-1224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}