Joint force commander: Houthis have violated peace initiatives
Commander of the Joint Forces in Yemen Lt. Gen. Mutlaq bin Salem al-Azimi accused the Houthi terrorist group of meeting all peace initiatives and attempts to calm the situation with flagrant violations, saying that the violations of the Iranian-affiliated militias were carried out under the eyes of the world.
Joint Forces commander Lt. Gen. Mutlaq bin Salem al-Azimi described the actions of the Houthi group over the past 16 months, in which the Supporting Legitimacy coalition decided to halt strikes as a prelude to a peace initiative.
At the end of his visit yesterday, al-Azimi said that the units stationed on the southern borders of Saudi Arabia are from the armed forces and the forces participating from the countries of the alliance to support legitimacy in Yemen, according to the official Saudi Press Agency : “The Alliance to Support Legitimacy in Yemen decided on September 1, 2020 to provide all opportunities for peace, confidence-building, improving the atmosphere and establishing a pretext for the enemies of peace, by suspending air strikes for eight months on all cities and camps, whatever the provocations and transgressions, and not responding to them in preparation for the peace initiative to be launched. Then came the Saudi peace initiative to end the Yemeni crisis and reach a comprehensive political solution that was blessed by the peace-loving world. The Alliance decided to continue for another eight months with pause and restraint to provide an atmosphere of assistance, to motivate the militia, create opportunities, stop pretexts and exts, despite the persistence and arrogance of that initiative and the continuation of its attacks in a way that is familiar and unexpected”.
In the 16 months, the Houthi group fired a total of 109 ballistic missiles at civilian objects and civilians, launched 414 drones with explosives, launched 52 booby-trapped boats, and randomly planted 110 sea mines in the southern Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab straits, in addition to targeting civilian airports such as Abha International Airport, Najran Airport and King Abdullah Airport in Jizan, as well as targeting desalination plants, Saudi Aramco tanks and vital civilian installations in the cities of Riyadh and Dammam, in addition to targeting all Saudi border cities, al-Azimi said.
