The leader of the Houthi group, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, told Al-Jazeera that Saudi Arabia has no intention of negotiating nor a real vision for peace, adding that the Houthis are with direct dialogue with Saudi Arabia, and that what happened between them of contacts does not amount to the level of negotiation.

Al-Houthi also stressed that the war with Saudi Arabia is open unless it stops from what he called "aggression against them," as he put it.

Al-Houthi also called on the UN envoy Martin Griffiths to change his negotiation method if he wanted to succeed in the Yemeni file, explaining that the Houthis welcome the United Nations experts to repair the Safer oil ship, but on the condition that there is a third party.

Rocket

On the ground, the Saudi-Emirati coalition forces said that a ballistic missile fired at Saudi Arabia was intercepted and destroyed.

The spokesman for the Saudi-Emirati coalition forces, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, stated that the coalition forces managed, on Sunday evening, to intercept and destroy a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the south.

Meanwhile, Houthi media said that the coalition launched 10 raids on areas in Sanaa and Hodeidah.

The Yemeni army also said that the Saudi-Emirati coalition launched two raids on Al-Jawf Governorate, in the north of the country, which resulted in deaths and injuries among the Houthis, while they were trying to regain newly lost sites east of Al-Hazm, the capital of Al-Jawf governorate bordering Saudi Arabia.

A few days ago, clashes have been going on in Al-Jawf governorate between Hadi forces and the Houthis, which left dead and wounded, at a time when Hadi's forces said that they had taken control of mountain sites and heights on Saturday in the Nehm district, east of the capital, Sana'a.

Yemen has been witnessing a war for 6 years between the legitimate forces backed by Saudi Arabia and the Houthi militants backed by Iran (Reuters)

For the sixth year, Yemen is witnessing a war between the forces loyal to the legitimate government headed by Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi militants accused of receiving Iranian support and controlling governorates, including Sanaa, since September 2014.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been waging a war in Yemen under the pretext of supporting legitimacy and reclaiming the provinces controlled by the Houthis.