Yemen called again Houthis to cease military attacks

As the doubts are increasing about the real potential of Houthis in the commitments in efforts to cease the conflict in Yemen, chiefs in the Iran-backed militia published mocking statements towards Washington’s latest press for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged country.

Indeed, Houthis kept launching a severe military operation against Yemen’s oil-rich governorate of Marib that became shelter of thousands of Yemeni displaced people from the terrors of war.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition demolished, on Thursday, a Houthi ballistic missile targeting civilians in Marib. It could destroy the two missiles and the launch pad. While, Yemen’s legitimate government denounced the Houthis’ repeated assaults on camps for the refuges in Marib.

On its part, the foreign affairs ministry stated that the militias targeted refugee camps north of Marib. It also affirmed that the attacks induced dozens of fatalities, including women and children.

Moreover, Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak declared that the militias’ systematic terrorist actions against international delivery lanes and vital energy installations in Saudi Arabia constitute a serious and destabilizing threat to the security and stability of the region and world.

He also appealed the international community to apply maximum pressure on the militias to cease the military escalation, in what the official Yemeni News Agency (Saba) reported.

In a statement at a virtual ministerial gathering of the Arab-Japanese political dialogue, bin Mubarak noted that the Houthi escalation and assaults against civilian targets come as a response to the legitimate government’s positive reply to the Saudi peace initiative and international appeals for a ceasefire, condemning the Houthis for continuing their fight for Marib although the ceasefire proposal.

About the risk of a catastrophic oil spill that could occurring at the oxidizing Safer oil tanker that is placed off the Red Sea coast in Yemen, the FM called the international community and UN Security Council to accept their responsibility in getting the Houthis to lift the ban on access to the abandoned vessel.

In fact, the Houthis prevented a UN group of experts from the access to the ship for assessment and maintenance work.