He accused the militias of evasion and warned of the collapse of the truce and peace efforts

Yemeni government delegation: Consultations to open Taiz roads and crossings return to "point zero"

The head of the Yemeni government delegation in Jordan's consultations on opening roads and crossings, Abdul Karim Shaiban, accused the Houthi terrorist militia of preparing for a large-scale military battle, after it rejected the proposal of the United Nations envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, regarding opening roads in Taiz and other provinces.

He warned in a press conference held today, Sunday, in Taiz, of the collapse of the UN truce, if the international community did not pressure the Houthis to open Taiz roads, noting that "the roads that the militias insist on opening in Taiz, are not suitable at all, and push cars cannot pass through them." The quadruple, how about the food trucks?

Shaiban said, "We also opened Sanaa airport and Hodeidah port, which are ports the world knows about. We want to open roads in Taiz that the world knows."

Shaiban added: "Houthi militias want to take advantage of time, and it is possible that they will return to a big battle, as they do not think about the humanitarian aspect and only believe in fighting."

Shaiban stressed that the road-opening consultations have returned to "point zero", and nothing new has been achieved due to the militia's intransigence, calling on the UN envoy and the international community to issue a statement of condemnation against the Houthis after their rejection of the UN proposal.

For its part, local sources in Taiz called on the UN envoy to clarify the course of things regarding the issue of Taiz roads, and to reveal and condemn the side that obstructs the implementation of the provisions of the armistice in this regard, noting that the humanitarian truce is threatened with collapse more than ever.

The militias, through their Minister of Defense, Ahmed Nasser Al-Atafi, affirmed their adherence to the military option, and not yielding to calls for peace, and the moves of the United Nations and the international community to stop the war in Yemen, and threatened to use force against neighboring countries.

The militia-controlled Saba news agency quoted Al-Atafi as threatening to continue military confrontations.

The Houthi threats come, in light of the entry into force of the United Nations truce, which was extended for two additional months in early June, and in light of the militias' continued refusal to implement the provision of opening roads and crossings in Taiz and other Yemeni governorates.

In addition, informed sources in Sanaa said that the UN truce enabled the militias to recruit 37,000 fighters, most of them children, and push them to the battlefronts in preparation for a new combat phase, noting that there are training camps in Sanaa, Amran, Hajjah and Saada.

Meanwhile, the Houthi militia continued its combat escalation on the fighting fronts, and today, it launched intense bombardment on the army and resistance positions east of Taiz, where clashes took place between the two sides due to the shelling and an attempt to infiltrate Houthi elements in the eastern and northern fronts.

Field sources said that the army and the resistance forces repelled a Houthi attack on their positions in "Kalaba" on the eastern front, and thwarted an infiltration attempt towards their positions on the northern front.

In Marib, the militias continued to bombard the positions of the army and the resistance on the western and southern fronts, using various types of weapons, while the army forces managed to thwart an attempt to infiltrate towards the al-Tala’a al-Hamra area in al-Mashjah and captured three Houthi members, including a close associate of the militia leader.

In Al-Dhalea, the Houthi militia bombed the sites and centers of the joint and southern forces, in the combat sectors north and west of the governorate, as well as residential villages, injuring five military forces, and damaging a number of houses in the town of Sabira.

The media center of the Al-Dhalea axis stated that the militias used their drones, which carried out 28 sorties, accompanied by intense artillery bombardment with artillery weapons of 120 and 80 calibers and others, focusing on the sectors of Batar, Al-Fakher, Bab Gough and Maris, referring to the killing of a civilian by Houthi snipers at the Maris front. North Dhale.

 The media center of the Yemeni army had monitored 115 violations of the UN truce on the fronts of Hodeidah, Taiz, Al-Dhalea, Hajjah, Al-Jawf and Marib, during the past two days, which caused the death of two soldiers and the injury of seven others.

In Al-Jawf, clashes resumed between the tribes of Bani Nouf and Shulan, due to Houthi interventions in fueling differences between the two parties, according to local sources, confirming the deaths and injuries of both parties in the ongoing clashes since the day before yesterday, in the Al-Hazm district, the capital of the governorate.

On the other hand, Houthi militia mines injured four civilians, including a child, in Al-Dhalea, Saada and Al-Hodeidah. A civilian was injured in the Ghafrah area of ​​Al-Zahir district in Saada, as a result of a Houthi projectile, while civilians were injured in the explosion of remnants of war in Juban district in Al-Dhalea, and a child was wounded. The explosion of a landmine planted by the militias in the village of Mandhar in Al-Durayhimi in Al-Hodeidah.

And an American human rights lawyer and activist called Irina Zuckerman said that the Houthi militias in Yemen have used more landmines in the world, noting on the sidelines of her participation in the fiftieth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, that the Houthis planted more than two million landmines in Yemen, which killed more than 9,000 Yemenis, and injured hundreds.

In Sana’a, the militias killed a member of the local council in the district of Mazhar in Raymah governorate, Sheikh Yusef Haider al-Jun, without knowing the reasons, while the militias kidnapped three of Raymah’s sons after deceiving them, under the so-called “general amnesty” and giving them safety if they returned from The legitimate areas, where they reneged on their promise and kidnapped them and took them to an unknown destination.

On the other hand, a Houthi religious reference called "Yahya bin Hussein al-Dailami" launched a sharp attack on the militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, accusing him of spending most of his time with his gang to control government institutions and looting public money, and that al-Houthi and his followers are indifferent to the hungry, the sick, the needy, or the poor. .

"The policy of the Houthi group is based on preventing people from even speaking and depriving them of this right," he said, describing the militias as oppressive and tyrannical, and that they do not consider people in their areas of control to be human beings.

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