The government described the play .. Houthi forces begin redeployment in the ports of Hodeidah

Al-Huthi group announced that it began Saturday under the supervision of UN simultaneous and unilateral redeployment in the three ports of Hodeidah on the west coast of Yemen, but the government quickly questioned the operation.

The Houthis began a redeployment operation at the main port of Hodeidah and the Salif and Ras Issa ports, respectively, for the transportation of grain and oil, in implementation of the first phase of the peace agreement they signed with the Yemeni government under the auspices of the United Nations last December in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

In the context of the unilateral redeployment, which was carried out under the supervision of three United Nations teams, the coast guard forces under the Houthi group first received the port of Salih and are supposed to take over the other two ports within a four-day operation.

The United Nations has overseen the redeployment of the army and the Popular Committees (Houthi) to the three Hodeidah ports in the presence of the UN team overseeing the cease-fire, the Houthi channel said.

In parallel to what they called a unilateral redeployment, the Huthis called on the United Nations to pressure the Saudi-UAE alliance and the Yemeni government to take a similar step.

The redeployment committee would allow the United Nations to play a key role in supporting the Red Sea Ports Corporation in port management and to improve inspections by the international shipping organization being procured, the UN's United Nations Coordination Committee said in a statement.

Yemeni journalist Hussein al-Bekhiti said the Houthis withdrew from the port of Hodeidah after the Stockholm agreement, but stopped completing it after the Saudi-UAE alliance refused to withdraw from eastern Hodeidah.

Al-Bakheeti said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the withdrawal is now one-sided and full of the three ports, under the supervision of the United Nations.

Charging misleading
But Yemeni officials hastened to question the Houthi redeployment and considered it to be misleading.

The Head of the Governmental Committee of the Coordination Committee for the Reunification of Hodeidah, Major General Sakhir bin Aziz, said that any unilateral operation without censorship is considered a fraud and a comic play, like its predecessor.

At the same time, Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani said that the Houthi Declaration was merely a play aimed at misleading the international community, the same position expressed by the government representative in the Hodeidah Coordination Committee in Hodeidah Ahmed Al-Kokbani and the governor of Hodeidah in charge of the government Hassan Taher.

However, Yemeni government negotiator Sadiq Daoud welcomed what he considered to be a first step in implementing the first phase of the redeployment of the forces of the conflicting parties in Hodeidah, stipulated in the Stockholm Agreement, calling on the United Nations to verify the process.

The head of the so-called Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, announced the start of a unilateral redeployment from 10 am today, while a member of the Political Bureau of the Houthi Muhammad al-Bekhiti said that the United Nations finally agreed to a unilateral withdrawal after failing to convince the other party to withdraw.

The conflicting interpretations of the Stockholm agreement have thwarted earlier attempts to implement the clause on the redeployment of rival forces in the province of Hodeidah, a vital seaport for the Houthis. It also includes the port from which the main materials are used to help millions of Yemenis vulnerable to famine.