Rashad Al-Alimi confirms the Yemeni government's commitment to the UN armistice
Head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al-Alimi affirmed the Yemeni government's commitment to the UN truce, calling, in a phone call with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, for international pressure on the Houthi terrorist militia to abide by it, open the crossings in the city of Taiz and lift the stifling siege on its residents.
Al-Alimi had discussed, in intensive meetings in Aden, the activation of state institutions, and had taken a number of decisions to address challenges in the military, security, judicial and administrative aspects.
For its part, the Yemeni parliament, yesterday, Thursday, granted confidence to the government of political competencies formed under the Riyadh Agreement in December 2020, headed by Muin Abdul-Malik.
For his part, Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdul-Malik affirmed his government's commitment to work on implementing the program presented to Parliament, and that he will provide the Council, every three months, with a report explaining what the government has accomplished and the difficulties it faces.
On the ground, the Houthi militias continued their violations of the UN armistice, as the Yemeni army forces and tribes thwarted at dawn today a massive Houthi attack on their positions in southern Marib, and the joint forces on the western coast announced that they had repelled a Houthi attack towards the Hays district, south of Hodeidah.
The Yemeni army reported on its website that the Houthi militia had escalated combat on various fronts during the past few hours, noting that 105 violations of the armistice were detected, including 26 violations in the Al-Barah axis, west of Taiz and the Hays axis, south of Hodeidah, and 24 violations in the southern, western and northwestern fronts. Marib, 22 on the Haradh and Bani Hassan fronts, west of Hajjah, 18 violations in the Taiz axis, 8 violations in Al-Jadafar and Huishian east of Hazm Al-Jawf, and 7 violations in the Maris front in the Al-Dhalea axis.
He also confirmed that the army and tribes forces thwarted several infiltration attempts by armed Houthi groups south of Tuhayta in the Hays axis at different times, under heavy cover of fire.
Meanwhile, field sources in Marib confirmed the killing of Houthi leader Salim Muhammad al-Mahdi, nicknamed "Abu Mujib", along with his members in battles with the Yemeni army south of Marib.
The militias had continued to send combat reinforcements to the Marib fronts through the Naqeel bin Ghaylan road and the Balsa market in the "Khalka" area of the Nihm district, northeast of Sanaa, including missiles and marches that were transferred from the al-Dailami base near Sanaa airport.
In Hodeidah, the joint forces monitored an intense flight of Houthi drones in the skies of Hays and Tuhayta districts, which violated the armistice.
In Al-Jawf, violent battles between the Bani Nouf tribes and the Houthi militia continued for the third day in a row, and expanded to include all areas of the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of the governorate, leaving dead and wounded on both sides.
Local sources in Hazm al-Jawf confirmed that the battles involved the use of machine guns and mortars, and that one of the city's markets was completely closed as a result of those battles, noting that the battles came after the militias killed one of the tribesmen at the tree point, the entrance to the city.
The tribes of Bani Nouf and the militias have witnessed a continuous escalation for two years against the background of the Houthis restricting the tribesmen and preventing them from movement, movement, trade, and the introduction of oil derivatives to their areas.
In Ibb, the Houthi leader, Fahd Al-Mujahdi, was killed in armed clashes with Houthi-Houthi elements in the Al-Jabjab area of Hazm Al-Adeen District, while a Houthi leader was injured while they were trying to intervene in the conflict in the area.
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