Yemen.. Decreased optimism about the opening of Taiz roads and the Houthis' implementation of the armistice provisions

The level of optimism among the people of Taiz governorate, about the possibility of opening the main crossings and roads to the besieged city for seven years, has declined, in light of the Houthi militia’s procrastination about responding to the UN Special Envoy’s proposal to open a number of roads in Taiz and other Yemeni governorates.

A number of activists and human rights defenders in Taiz stated on their social media accounts that the militias deal with the people of Taiz in an inhumane manner, and they deal with international and international efforts to alleviate the suffering of Taiz with recklessness, which is the way the militias follow in any consultations, negotiations and agreements they conclude.

They pointed out that the lack of real pressure from the international community against the militias made them practice that arrogance and disregard for the lives of the residents of the besieged areas in Taiz and other governorates, stressing that the only way to reach any agreement with the Houthis must be preceded by a military operation that weakens them.

The Yemeni government had stressed the need to fully implement the terms of the UN armistice to achieve its humanitarian goals, including lifting the siege completely on Taiz, opening main roads and harnessing the revenues of the port of Hodeidah to pay public sector salaries in areas controlled by the Houthi militia.

 Yemen's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah Al-Saadi, said during his meeting with the head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement, General Michael Beary, that the intransigence and lack of seriousness of the militias in engaging in good faith with these efforts confirms their lack of seriousness to engage in lasting peace.

For his part, the head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), Major General Michael Beary, revealed efforts to expand the mission's monitoring scope in the south of the governorate, which is witnessing a state of instability.

 "We are now in a new military and political scene in Hodeidah," he said in a press conference at the United Nations Permanent Headquarters, in reference to the aftermath of the withdrawal of the joint forces, noting that pockets of instability are still in the areas of contact between the two sides, as the two sides seek. The mission to expand its oversight spokesperson.

Meanwhile, government preparations continued to confront any disavowal by the militias of the truce and their failure to implement all of its provisions. Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdul Malik held a meeting with the leadership of the Fourth Military Region, in which a call was made to raise the military readiness to deal with any escalation of the Houthi militia, and to reposition the combat on the fronts. According to the official Yemeni news agency "Saba".

The agency indicated that the meeting stressed the importance of integration between the military and security agencies, to implement the directives of the Presidential Leadership Council, and to facilitate the work and tasks of the Security and Military Committee for the reorganization and restructuring of the armed and security forces.

In Al-Jawf, the Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Army, Commander of Joint Operations, Lieutenant-General Saghir bin Aziz, called on the leadership of the Sixth Military Region to raise combat readiness in the theater of operations, and to benefit from training and qualification operations in carrying out the upcoming combat missions.

During the past two days, the Houthi militia worked to dig trenches and build barricades in the seam areas and the road linking the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of Al-Jawf, and Camp Al-Labanat, as part of its preparations and daily violations of the UN armistice.

Field sources said that the militias deployed weapons, booby-trapped and planted mines in the seam areas on the Al-Jawf fronts, and moved missile launchers and marches to the governorate with the aim of using them towards Marib and the Saudi borders in the future.

On the southern fronts of Marib, field sources reported that the army forces managed to thwart an infiltration attempt by Houthi elements in the sandy axis, and were able to destroy an armored vehicle and a bulldozer that the militias were using in the process of creating advanced positions.

The army forces also managed to capture a Houthi leader named "Abu Hakim Wahas", the Houthi reconnaissance commander in southern Ma'rib, along with a number of his members while they were conducting reconnaissance operations in the vicinity of the army's sites.

In Aden, journalist Saber Noman Muhammad al-Haidari, reporter for Japanese NHK TV, was killed in the detonation of an explosive device planted in his car in the "Kabota" area of ​​Mansoura district, north of Aden, which also killed two others and wounded a third.

Security sources in Aden said that the explosion that targeted the journalist Al-Haidari was caused by an explosive device placed in his car, confirming that an investigation was opened into the accident to find out who was behind it.

On Thursday, Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani accused the Houthi militia of being behind the assassination of journalist Al-Haidari on Wednesday evening in the temporary capital, Aden.

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