Younis Al-Alwani lives in a state of anxiety, and continues to follow the news, hoping that the statement of the Houthi group, which announced last night, that the understandings to extend the armistice had reached a dead end, was only a pressure card.

Younis, who owns a local furniture recycling operator in the capital, Sanaa, told Al Jazeera Net that the truce gave him a chance to catch his breath after 8 years of war, as air raids stopped and gasoline and diesel flowed to gas stations.

A statement issued by the national delegation regarding the armistice https://t.co/WbMF8DX6tV

— Mohamed Abdel Salam (@abdusalamsalah) October 1, 2022

The threat of the Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the oil companies operating in Yemen, raised Yunus' fears, and said, "We can no longer tolerate the return of war."

Today, Sunday, the truce that entered into force on the second of last April ended without being extended, despite international and UN efforts, and Yemenis fear that this may cause a new cycle of fighting to erupt.

We will provide you with it as soon as the armistice period ends in the event that nothing is achieved to achieve the rightful demands of our people.


The armed forces are in the process of being prepared and ready for any developments, holding these companies responsible for ignoring what will be issued by them during the coming hours.

— Brigadier General Yahya Saree (@army21ye) October 1, 2022

limited breakthrough

During the past six months, the truce allowed fuel imports to flow from the port of Hodeidah to Houthi-controlled areas, which include two-thirds of the population, which led to the decline of one of the most severe humanitarian crises;

As the queues of cars lasted for days in front of the stations.

Regular flights began to arrive between Amman and Sanaa airports, which were closed seven years ago, and the dilemma of patients traveling abroad was cleared, as they had to pass armed roads and points to reach the airport in the city of Aden, in the south.

The most important thing was the decrease in the intensity of the battles, while the mutual aerial bombardment between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia stopped, and according to a joint statement of 44 humanitarian and international organizations working in Yemen, the country witnessed a 60% decrease in the number of casualties.

But the Yemeni researcher at the Middle East Institute in Washington, Nadwa Al-Dosari, tells Al Jazeera Net that the truce benefited the Houthis and did nothing for the Yemenis, especially with the group's refusal to reopen the main roads of the city of Taiz, which has been besieged by them since the end of 2015.

She adds that opening Sanaa airport was a good thing in principle, but the Houthis manipulated the file and turned it into an outlet to control the Yemenis, since whoever leaves Sanaa must obtain their approval.

According to the new draft on the terms of the armistice, the legitimacy should surrender itself to the Houthis, relieve the people of all this effort, and demand special salaries for its senior employees from Saudi Arabia, and the Yemen file is over.

— mustafa naji Mustafa Naji (@mustafaAljabzi1) October 1, 2022

Armistice failure

In a tweet on Twitter, the spokesman for the Houthi negotiating delegation, Muhammad Abd al-Salam, denied reports of an agreement to extend the armistice, confirming the group's previous statement issued last night.

There is no truth to what was reported by some malicious media outlets about an agreement to extend the truce, and yesterday we explained our position and the demands of our Yemeni people in a statement issued by the national delegation.

— Mohamed Abdel Salam (@abdusalamsalah) October 2, 2022

The statement does not appear to be the final position of the Houthis, and Hizam al-Assad, a member of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthis (the highest political authority) says to Al Jazeera Net, that this position may change if the "humanitarian" demands that were agreed upon with the other party are fulfilled, related to stopping violations and paying the salaries of employees. And retirees and reopen roads, and adds that the other party repudiates these demands until the moment.

Al-Assad says that travel from Sanaa International Airport is still prohibited except for a destination restricted to one lane, and coalition battleships are intercepting fuel ships arriving at the port of Hodeidah, in addition to the continuous looting of the country's sovereign resources, according to him.

The head of the Presidential Leadership Council in Yemen, Rashad Al-Alimi, had discussed with the United Nations envoy Hans Grundberg in Riyadh, opportunities to extend the armistice in the country, hours before its expiry date.

According to the government news agency (Saba), Al-Alimi denounced "the position of the Houthi militias hostile to peace efforts and good efforts to stop the bloodshed," stressing "the importance of doubling international pressure to push the militias to deal seriously with them, and to give priority to the interests of the Yemeni people over the interests of their leaders and their Iranian backers."

The agency did not provide any details regarding the extension of the truce.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information in the Yemeni government, Abdul Basit al-Qaedi, told Al Jazeera Net that the Houthis' statement about the truce is only a maneuver, "but in the end they will comply and sign the truce that they did not adhere to in the first place."

Al-Houthi will announce at the last moment his agreement to extend the truce.


He is only practicing blackmail, and at the last minute of the end of the current truce he will receive a phone call from the agent in (Tehran) to agree to extend the truce.

- Dr. Abdullah Lamlas (@binlamlas21) October 1, 2022

He added that the demands set by the Houthis stem from their own interests, as they employed the issue of salary payments to mobilize and gain popular sympathy, while they refused to implement the Stockholm Agreement (2018), which requires them to deposit fuel revenues and the port of Hodeidah in an account in the central bank, the Hodeidah branch, from which salaries are paid.

He added, "The government is keen to pay the salaries of all employees according to the 2014 statements, provided the Houthis are committed to implementing the salary clause in the Stockholm Agreement."

But the researcher Al-Dosari says that the Houthis' hard stance is not new, and it is a tactic through which they obtained many of their demands previously, as the international community believes that acquiescing to their demands will encourage them to make concessions, but what is happening is that the group is getting tougher to obtain greater demands.

Explosion mode

With the end of the truce, Yemen may witness an explosion of the military situation again, and the Assad belt says that the situation will extend beyond the recognized borders, as "there are military options for the group that include the region and the international community."

He tells Al Jazeera Net that the other party's refusal to extend the armistice means an escalation of aggression against Yemen, and that his group's position is defensive.

For his part, Al-Qaedi accuses the Houthis of blackmailing the inside and outside, "as they take advantage of the developments that the region and the world are going through to make the greatest amount of gains."

He adds that the legitimate government is keen on real peace, and is also ready for the option of war.

According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group, if the parties cannot strike a deal, the conflict may return to previous levels of destructive intensity, or even exceed it.

In a statement, the Houthis refused to extend the truce, they stated that they did not ask for their own demands, but for the rights of the Yemeni citizen, such as salaries.


Take these:


The Stockholm Agreement stipulated that the revenues of the port of Hodeidah be deposited in a special account under UN supervision, from which salaries would be paid.


And after they collected billions, they looted them, according to the testimony of the United Nations.

- Dr.

Muhammad Jumeh (@MGumeh) October 1, 2022

international endeavors

Earlier, the United States expressed concern about the lack of progress in extending the truce, and the US ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Fagin, called on the parties "not to squander the progress of the past six months."

The US State Department welcomed Saudi Arabia's commitment to extending the armistice in Yemen, but a member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Hizam al-Assad, says that Washington, which is the main party in the war on Yemen, and behind it Saudi Arabia and the UAE are betting on delaying the battle.

But Assad hinted at an active role for the Sultanate of Oman, in which the Houthi delegation resides, to extend the truce, and told Al Jazeera Net that Muscat is not exerting pressure on the group, but rather continues rapprochement efforts.

Yemeni researcher Al-Dosari says that the United Nations and the international community do not have pressure tools on the Houthis and have not been able to persuade the Houthis to peace, so she believes that the war in Yemen will return in any case, whether after weeks or months. The Houthis' strategic and declared goal is to control Yemen and "not propaganda." .

Reading in the axes of the draft armistice..


▪️ Hodeidah port:


Talking about a comprehensive opening of the port, and this will cancel the international mechanism emanating from the Stockholm Agreement, and will abolish the government’s role in knowing the ships coming to the port, which means the possibility of smuggled oil and weapons entering the port, and the exit of an international sea port from Sovereignty of the government.1

— Fares Alhemyari (@FaresALhemyari) October 1, 2022