Houthi militias launched on Friday a new kidnapping campaign in several districts of the capital, amid increasing fears that their leaders would be subject to sudden counter-attacks and suicidal attempts from Yemenis who oppose their presence in Sanaa, particularly after a new decision to increase fuel prices. Anti-Houthi residents and security sources said the rebels already kidnapped a number of imams from the capital’s mosques and activists in the district of Sawad Hanash, near the University of Sanaa. The sources added that Houthi rebels broke into the house of a Karate player, Ala’ al-Shadadi, in the neighborhood of Habra, arrested him and threatened members of his family. “The armed militias kidnaped the 18-year-old al-Shadadi before taking him to an unknown location,” they said. Pro-Houthi media outlets said the rebels’ security apparatus have increased their campaigns to search for members who assassinated, few days ago, the son of one their big commander. Two days ago, the pro-Iranian militias officially increased the price of fuel to 7,000 Yemeni Riyal to every 20 liters of diesel and gasoline. Anti-Houthi activists on the social media networks condemned the increase of the fuel price. They evoked a similar price increase of fuel in 2014 as a pretext to intrude into Sanaa and overthrow the legitimate government. Activists also accused the militias of increasing the price of fuel in an attempt to collect money and spend them to finance the battlefronts, and buy luxury products for their commanders. Lately, reports said that tens of Houthi armed militias, mostly young men, have escaped the western coastal front to their villages, in light of the collapses witnessed in the ranks of the rebel group. Houthis ordered local banks to freeze the accounts of 49 relatives of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.