\nDUBAI: A Houthi affiliated radio station released a video showing four men standing in front of wads of cash claimed to be for Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
\nIn the video, which has been circulated on social media this week, the director-general of Houthi-affiliated radio station Sam FM, Hamoud Mohammad Sharaf, is seen leading a chant, praising a fundraising campaign for the Iran-backed Lebanese militia group, Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFrom Yemen\u2019s faith to Lebanon\u2019s Resistance! God is great! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curses upon the Jews! Victory for Islam,\u201d the men chant.<\/p>\n
\nThe Houthi Sam FM radio station\u00a0held a fundraising campaign for\u00a0Hezbollah\u00a0called \u201cGoodness of Yemen\u201d between May 20 and June 30, 2019, during Ramadan.<\/p>\n
\nThe radio station claims that the campaign raised $295,000 (74,010,000 Yemeni rial).<\/p>\n
\nThe fundraising came after Hezbollah called on its supporters in March to donate money as it came under increasing pressure from sanctions intended to isolate it financially.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States, United Kingdom, member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Argentina deem Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n
\nYemeni political analyst, Fatima Alasrar, wrote in May that the Houthis\u2019 fundraising for Hezbollah is not surprising, as the militia\u2019s ties to the group are \u201cundeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMilitary support for the Houthis from Iran and Hezbollah \u201ccomes in different ways\u201d and is \u201cwell documented,\u201d Alasrar says, referencing a\u00a02015 Financial Times article<\/a>\u00a0where two senior Hezbollah sources said that \u201chundreds of Lebanese and Iranian trainers and military advisers are in Yemen already.\u201d<\/p>\n