Yemen..The release of Houthi prisoners strengthens the humanitarian truce
The Saudi humanitarian initiative to release 163 Houthi prisoners was very welcome, as the UN envoy, Hans Grundberg, expressed his welcome to the initiative and said that it greatly serves international efforts to break peace in Yemen.
For his part, the US envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, said that the initiative contributes a lot to the consolidation of the humanitarian truce, calling for seizing the opportunity of the truce to overcome the problems of continuous aid access and increase humanitarian funding.
In turn, the "Islamic Cooperation" welcomed the release of 163 Houthi prisoners as part of the Saudi initiative, and expressed its hope that efforts would continue to consolidate the armistice and provide conditions for a comprehensive political settlement.
While the Houthi militia dealt with the prisoners' file as a political file, through which it seeks to mobilize more fighters and push them to the fronts, the official spokesman for the Prisoners' Affairs Committee of the Yemeni government, Majed Fadayel, indicated that dealing with the file of humanitarian prisoners is openness.
Fadayel called on the Houthi militia to deal with the file of prisoners humanely, and not to put obstacles in the way of prisoner exchange deals, and to choose specific names and reject others.
In Al-Dhalea, the Security Belt forces thwarted an attack by Al-Qaeda terrorist elements that came from Al-Bayda governorate, towards one of its sites, on Friday night - Saturday, and incurred heavy losses, while 11 security personnel were killed and wounded. By the deputy commander of the security belt in the province, Walid al-Dami.
The sources reported that 8 members of al-Qaeda were killed, including the leader of the organization, Salim al-Masn, and his brother, Salih al-Masn, who are wanted internationally on the terrorist list.
On the same level, al-Qaeda in Yemen leaked information that one of the foreign employees working for Doctors Without Borders had been executed, who were kidnapped early last March on the road linking Seiyun, Hadramout and Ma'rib Governorate.
Two foreign employees of Doctors Without Borders, the Mexican Sundar Fernandez, and the German Kristan Gustloff, were kidnapped in early March by gunmen while they were on their way from Seiyun Hadramout to the Ma'rib Governorate.
In Saada, on Saturday, Yemeni army forces shot down attack drones launched by the militias, towards the Al-Malahiz area in the Al-Zaher district.
The army forces in Saada had monitored 600 Houthi violations of the truce in the governorate since its beginning in early April, including attacks, infiltration attempts, artillery shelling, rockets and marches.
In Marib, the army forces repelled a Houthi attack on their positions on the Mala’a front, south of the governorate, in which the militias used various types of weapons, as part of their daily violations of the UN truce.
And field sources in Marib stated that the movements of Houthi combat mechanisms were monitored in the districts of Serwah West, and Al-Juba, south of Marib.
In Taiz, the monitoring team of the Human Rights Information and Rehabilitation Center "Hritc" reported that Houthi militia snipers, stationed in the Central Security Camp, east of the city, targeted residents of the Kalaba neighborhood, injuring two people.
In addition, two civilians were injured when a landmine left behind by the militias exploded in the Al-Rama area in the Mocha district, west of Taiz.
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