Why did the coalition resume the bombing of Sanaa after a period of months?

Mohammed Abdul Malik - Al Jazeera Net

Surprisingly, the Saudi-Saudi alliance returned to target the Yemeni capital of Sanaa after a halt for months.

Among the declared objectives of the coalition, which justified its military operation before it was launched, the Huthis responded, and the vision of military officials; the accounts of this escalation varied.

The objectives of the process
Al Jazeera Net tried to find an answer to the question posed by the Yemenis about the main objectives of that sudden operation, whether to target certain Houthi leaders, or a reaction to the failure of the Swedish consultations and the recent talks in Jordan?

According to a spokesman for the Saudi-UAE alliance before the air raids, the operation is aimed at destroying the capabilities of the aircraft in Sanaa owned by the Houthis.

But a member of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthis Mohammed al-Bakheeti said in an interview for Al Jazeera Net that if the operations of the coalition targeting the aviation industry is actually going to announce the identity of the goals beyond the operation, and not disclosed through the media before implementation.

On the issue of whether the operation was a reaction to the course of the political consultations, al-Bukhiti said after the Swedish agreement, the coalition resorted to a military escalation on a large scale on various fronts. This indicates that the targeting of Sana'a is not due to the failure of the implementation of the Swedish agreement. Previously.

Al-Bukhaiti said that if there were military targets, as the coalition announced, they did not target the citizens' homes and the sponge factory in Sana'a.

Al-Jazirah Net spoke with a member of the Houthis group in Swedish consultations, Abdulmalik al-Ajri, who described the return of the coalition to target the densely populated city of Sana'a and more than 20 raids in less than 12 hours;

"The aggression does not have any specific objectives since the beginning of its war on Yemen, but this escalation wants to send a message to the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffith that he will not be able to visit Sanaa in the coming days by bombing the airport and trying to thwart the Hudaydah agreements.

According to Al-Ajri, what the Saudi-UAE alliance has done is to destroy the destroyer and bomb sites that he has bombed more than once.

Interpretation of legality
Muhsin Khasroof, head of the Yemeni-backed military guidance department in the Yemeni army, described the attack as a natural reaction to the recent escalation of the Houthis.

According to Khasrov, these operations in fact represent a reaction to the persistence of the Huthis and targeting the leaders of the National Army supported by the coalition at the base of the air force days ago, and continued rocket attacks on the city of Marib and the positions of the army in Hodeidah and other fronts and cities.

On whether these raids were aimed at the liquidation of Houthi leaders, Maj. Gen. Mohsen Khasrof told al-Jazeera Net that the options for war are open and all possibilities are available regarding the objectives of this targeting, whether the Houthi leaders or their positions and fortifications, and anything else.

Khasrov said that the return of the coalition to target the Huthi sites in Sana'a also falls within "the expression of the desperation reached by the Yemenis, and with them the international community and the coalition, to deal with the Huthi militias peacefully, and to ensure that they will not hand over arms to the state and will only be subject to the language they understand" .

A mysterious war
"With the exception of Saudi Arabia's clear position on Yemen and the Yemenis, a condescending attitude of hatred and fear of independent Republican and Democratic Yemen, we can not understand Saudi Arabia's entire behavior in its war against Houthi." This was the answer of Yemeni political analyst and researcher Essam al-Qaisi in response to a question by Al-Jazeera Net about his interpretation of the recent escalation of the alliance and bombing Sana'a.

"The Saudi and Emirati agenda in their war on Yemen is not clear, and what Saudi Arabia says publicly is being lied to by reality and what is hidden from the agenda is greater than what it shows.

"It is clear that the Saudi-UAE alliance does not want to eliminate Huthi, and does not want to resolve the battle in favor of legitimacy, and it is more clear that Saudi Arabia does not want a democratic republic next to it, and other details that are not important."