Yemen map:- pink ( controlled by Govt of Yemen)
Green ( controlled by Houthi Supreme Council)
Yellow ( controlled by UAE backed Southern Transitional Council)
White ( Al Queda)
North of Yemen is Saudi Arabia
66% of Yemenis are Sunnis, while 35% are Shias. Much of its economic activities are along the coastal plains & western plains where the capital is. It's GDP is about $21 Billion annually mainly thru agriculture exports to China (41%).
Despite billion$ in revenue, it still receives $4 Billion from UN for Humanitarian aid each year. It's unemployment rate is at an appalling est 14%/yr. The religion supremacy wars had WRECKED its economy for almost a decade. It is NOT financially sustainable to fund an army, either by itself or with help from sponsors such as Iran which is facing economic problems of its own.
Worse still - with UN agencies under ICC scrutiny for allowing protected infrastructures such as schools, refugee camps, mosques & hospitals to be used as military bases, they will no longer rely on mere words but ACTIVE scrutiny to ensure that such aids are meant as Humanitarian aid & not for feeding militants or funding expensive weapon purchases.
When comparisons are made between Arabs & Persians over intelligence, it is often the Persians ( IRAN) that comes up top. Many of the Shia Houthis had been made used grievously by the Persian Hizbollahs which are funded by Iran, but now with efforts at Peace between S.Arabia & Iran, the Hizbollahs are left hanging, with even the founder of Hizbollah movement ranting & even cursing Iran & Iran backed proxies in Lebanon & Yemen, even Syria for not rampaging & killing infidels.
It is high time for the Houthis to be independent, & work towards a peace treaty between the Sunni govt & themselves, or even autonomy with a Yemen Constitutional clause to protect religious freedom such as Shia beliefs. To continue on fighting, holding hostages, support lost causes, etc, would only starve everyone in Yemen & destroy the beautiful ancient country. It is a country of & for Yemenis. Hizbollah & Iran cares not a fig if Yemen or Lebanon is destroyed, because it is NOT their country..