DUBAI: Yemen鈥檚 Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani called on the international community to classify the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization and urged countries to pressure the group to stop recruiting children as soldiers, state news agency Saba News reported. 

To mark International Children's Day, Al-Eryani said: 鈥淲e remember tens-of-thousands of Yemeni children that the militia has recruited, brainwashed their minds with sectarian terrorist ideology, subjected them to military training and deployed them to the frontlines as a service to the Iranian regime.鈥�

Al-Eryani noted the Houthis have replaced mainstream education with 鈥渞adicalization courses鈥� imposed on 鈥渉undreds-of-thousands of children鈥� to push them into battlefields.

He called on the international community to hold leaders and members of the group accountable and to prosecute them in international courts as war criminals.