Negotiations continue to extend the armistice in Yemen

Hans Grundberg

The United Nations and its envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, continued efforts to extend and expand the truce, while the Yemeni government blamed the Houthi militias for the collapse of the truce and the return to the fighting square, and called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and put more pressure on the Houthis to return to the truce and calm path.

The US State Department said in a statement that the United States is deeply concerned that the UN-brokered truce in Yemen ended in October without the parties reaching an agreement to extend it. a threat to merchant ships and oil companies.

On the ground, the forces of the Yemeni army and the resistance in Taiz, at dawn today, repelled multiple Houthi attacks on the fronts west of the city, concentrated in the Muqbna district, where the militias tried to penetrate the first defenses of the government forces in the district in order to control Tabab Hakimah overlooking the road between Taiz and Hodeidah. But the forces thwarted it and inflicted heavy losses on the Houthis.

In Marib, the Yemeni army and resistance forces thwarted an attempt to infiltrate Houthi elements towards their positions in the Ramli axis, south of the governorate, and another attempt at the Al-Kasara front, west of Marib, was also thwarted.

The media center of the Yemeni army stated that it recorded 976 Houthi violations in the last days of the armistice on the fronts of "Hodeidah, Taiz, Al-Dhalea, Hajjah, Saada, Al-Jawf and Marib", which led to the killing and wounding of 39 soldiers, while local residents in Sana'a reported huge explosions at dawn today in the northern regions of the capital, resulting in About conducting tests by the militias on ballistic missiles.

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