Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announced during his meeting with the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, the group’s refusal to link the humanitarian file to any political or military issues, while the governorates of Al-Jawf and Marib witnessed new battles between the Yemeni National Army and the Houthis.
The Houthi spokesman, Muhammad Abd al-Salam, quoted the group’s leader during his meeting with Griffiths Sunday in Sana’a, that linking the humanitarian file to other issues constitutes an explicit confiscation of the right of the Yemeni people to their most basic human rights, an equation that cannot be accepted at all. Read also Yemen .. behind the escalation of the “transitional” against the government and its hinting of imminent restoration of the “state of the south”A terrifying account of torture in secret prisons in the Balhaf facility in Yemen The last stronghold of the government in northern Yemen … Know the most important stages of the battle for Marib
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Al-Houthi called for allowing the entry of oil derivatives, food and medical supplies without barter, adding that “the real entrance to all files is from the gate to addressing the requirements of the humanitarian file.”
Griffiths’ visit to Sanaa comes in the context of intensifying political moves led by the UN and US envoys to Yemen, with the aim of a ceasefire and the resumption of the political process.
These movements included the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and the Omani capital, Muscat.
For his part, a member of the political bureau of the Houthi group, Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, in a previous publication on Al-Jazeera, called on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to stop the war in Yemen, in exchange for the
Iranian support for the Houthis
Politically as well, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the legitimate Yemeni government, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, said during his meeting with the US special envoy to Iran Robert Malley through visual communication technology that the reason for the prolongation of the war in Yemen is the continuation of Iranian military support “to the coup militias, through which they are working to destroy Yemen and the exacerbation of the humanitarian catastrophe afflicting the Yemeni people. “
Bin Mubarak added that the initiatives put forward to bring peace to Yemen and the efforts of the international community, including the United States of America, to end this war, “were all smashed on the rock of intransigence and arrogance of the coup militias that do not take any consideration for the interest of Yemen and the Yemeni people.”
For years, the United Nations has been making repeated diplomatic efforts to reach a political solution to the Yemeni crisis, but it has not succeeded in achieving any tangible progress on the ground.
For nearly seven years, Yemen has been witnessing an ongoing war between the pro-government forces backed by an Arab military coalition led by the Saudi neighbor, and the Iran-backed Houthis, who have controlled provinces, including the capital, Sanaa, since September 2014.
Battles in Al-Jawf and Ma’rib
Regarding military developments, the Yemeni army announced on Sunday the killing of 19 Houthis during confrontations that lasted about 9 hours in the Khub and Al-Sha`af district in Al-Jawf governorate (northeast of Sanaa).
The army said that it carried out artillery strikes targeting Houthi sites and barracks in Serwah, west of the Ma’rib Governorate (east of the capital), and resulted in the destruction of 3 military vehicles.
The Yemeni army released videos showing Saudi-Emirati coalition aircraft targeting Houthi reinforcements in Al-Jawf and Marib, which led to the destruction of vehicles and military vehicles.
For its part, Houthi media said that the coalition warplanes launched 26 air strikes on sites in the Marib and Al-Jawf governorates during the past 24 hours.
About 10 days ago, the Houthis launched simultaneous attacks, the most violent in 3 weeks, on the battlefronts in western Marib governorate.