Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announced during his meeting with the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, the group's refusal to link the humanitarian file to any political or military issues, while the governorates of Al-Jawf and Marib witnessed new battles between the Yemeni National Army and the Houthis.

During his meeting with Griffiths on Sunday in Sana'a, Houthi spokesman Muhammad Abdul Salam quoted the group's leader that linking the humanitarian file to other issues constitutes an explicit confiscation of the Yemeni people's right to their most basic human rights, an equation that cannot be accepted at all.

During the meeting, which was held within the framework of the first visit of the UN envoy to the Yemeni capital in a year, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi criticized the United Nations' handling of humanitarian issues in Yemen, stressing the need for the international organization to have an explicit position, and to stand by the Yemeni people, according to what Abdul Salam said. .

Al-Houthi called for allowing the entry of oil derivatives, food and medical supplies without bartering, adding that "the real entrance to all files is through the gateway to address the requirements of the humanitarian file."

Griffiths' visit to Sanaa comes in the context of the intensification of political moves led by the UN and US envoys to Yemen, with the aim of a ceasefire and the resumption of the political process.

These movements included the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and the Omani capital, Muscat.

For his part, a member of the Houthi political bureau, Muhammad al-Bakhiti, called - in a previous bulletin on the island - Saudi Arabia and the UAE to stop the war in Yemen, in exchange for the group stopping targeting Saudi Arabia.

Iranian support for the Houthis

Politically also, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the legitimate Yemeni government, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, said, during his meeting with the US special envoy to Iran Robert Malley, via video communication technology, that the reason for prolonging the war in Yemen is the continued Iranian military support for “coup militias, through which they are working to destroy Yemen and the exacerbation of the humanitarian catastrophe suffered by the Yemeni people.

Bin Mubarak added that the initiatives put forward to bring peace to Yemen and the efforts of the international community, including the United States of America, to end this war, "have all crashed against the rock of intransigence and arrogance of the coup militias that do not take into account the interests of Yemen and the Yemeni people."

For years, the United Nations has been making repeated diplomatic efforts, with the aim of reaching a political solution to the Yemeni crisis, but it has not succeeded in achieving any tangible progress on the ground.

For nearly 7 years, Yemen has been witnessing a continuous war between the pro-government forces backed by an Arab military alliance led by the neighboring Saudi Arabia, and the Iranian-backed Houthis, who have controlled governorates, including the capital, Sanaa, since September 2014.

Battles in Al-Jawf and Ma'rib

In the military developments, the Yemeni army announced on Sunday the killing of 19 Houthis during clashes that lasted about 9 hours in the Khab and Al Sha`af district of Al-Jawf Governorate (northeast of Sanaa).

The army said that it carried out artillery shelling targeting Houthi sites and barracks in Sirwah, west of Ma'rib Governorate (east of the capital), and resulted in the destruction of 3 military vehicles.

The Yemeni army published videos showing the Saudi-Emirati coalition aircraft targeting Houthi reinforcements in Al-Jawf and Marib, which led to the destruction of military vehicles and vehicles.

For its part, Houthi media said that coalition warplanes launched 26 air strikes on sites in the Marib and Al-Jawf governorates during the past 24 hours.

About 10 days ago, the Houthis launched the most violent simultaneous attacks in 3 weeks on the fighting fronts in western Marib Governorate.