The UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana'a yesterday to meet with a number of leaders of the Iranian Houthi militia, which continues to escalate and breaches of the daily truce in various districts of Hodeidah province in western Yemen, while military operations continued on the fronts of Saada province eight Meanwhile, militias fired 211 employees of the Ministry of Education in Sana'a.
The UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Sana'a yesterday for a two-day visit to meet with a number of Iranian militia leaders as part of his efforts to prepare for a new round of Yemeni peace talks, which he started with meetings with the legitimate government and the Arab coalition.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Houthi militias continued their military escalation and field violations of the UN truce, in a number of directorates of Hodeidah province on the west coast of Yemen.
The militias targeted joint forces positions on the northern outskirts of Hays district with various types of heavy and medium weapons, sniper weapons and artillery shells.
According to field sources, the militias targeted the sites with missiles and medium weapons intensively, while the joint forces thwarted unsuccessful attempts to infiltrate the Houthi militias in the Duraimi district of Hodeidah governorate, mobilized groups of its elements, and used various heavy, medium and light weapons.
A military source in the field that the groups of Houthi militias carried out yesterday, a number of attempts to infiltrate in the directorate of Duraimi, supported by heavy shelling direct and indirect heavy artillery, in addition to medium and light weapons, but they broke and all attempts failed.
The source stressed that the continued escalation of Houthi militias in Hodeidah is a blow to the Stockholm Agreement and the efforts of the Joint Committee on the redeployment in Hodeidah and threatens the entire peace settlement.
In Saada, fighter jets bombed Arab coalition to support legitimacy, yesterday, positions and movements of the Houthi militia in the Directorate of Baqim, in conjunction with the military confrontations waged by the Yemeni army backed by coalition forces, in more than eight combat axes, in the Houthi stronghold in the directorates of Saada province.
Field sources said that he heard loud explosions after the bombing, noting that the raids may have targeted stores belonging to Iranian militias in Baqim.
In Al-Jawf, violent clashes erupted between the Yemeni army forces and Iranian militias in Khub and Al-Shaaf Directorate.
According to field sources, the Iranian militias tried to infiltrate the army positions in the Directorate, but the army was able to confront them and suffered heavy casualties.
The engineering teams of the National Mine Action Program and the Saudi Mine Clearance Project (Masam) destroyed yesterday a quantity of mines and explosive devices planted by militias in a number of areas of Al-Jawf province.
The Director of the National Mine Action Program, Brigadier Roken Amin Al-Aqeeli, said that 1230 mines and unexploded ordnance were destroyed in Qaroun al-Salima area, north of Al-Hazm district, Al-Jawf governorate. High impact areas in the districts of al-Hazm, al-Gail, several areas, and al-Jawf west, after being heavily planted by militias.
In Sanaa, local sources said that the city is witnessing an unannounced state of alert, amid Houthi fears of uncontrollable things and people going out in demonstrations against the militias, pointing out that the militias deployed vehicles in all streets of Sanaa.
This comes at a time when the militias issued a decision to dismiss 211 employees in the ministry's general office in Sana'a, which is under their control, as part of its plans to replace its elements in the government job.
A memorandum issued by the General Department of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Education in the coup government in Sanaa confirmed the termination of the service of 211 employees, under the pretext of discontinuation from work, while educational sources confirmed that most of those arrested were not interrupted, but were replaced by employees loyal to it.