Yemen.. optimism about a peace agreement during 2023, and the Houthi militia is rising west
The Yemenis bid farewell to the year 2022 with a combat escalation by the terrorist Houthi militia on several fronts, as well as the thwarting of the endeavors and efforts of calm and peace sponsored by the United Nations with international and regional support, while Yemeni political and military sources expected that 2023 would be a year of peace and stability in the country.
On the western coast of Yemen, military sources confirmed that the Houthi militia is currently focusing on deploying missile and drone launch bases in areas under its control in Hodeidah, which threatens international navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
She explained that the militias are working in two directions during the period after their rejection of the armistice. The first is focused on deploying missiles and marches in sensitive areas that threaten oil resources and international navigation, and the second is prevarication and seeking gains through international efforts to return to calm and peace, without making any concessions that lead to lasting peace.
This coincides with the joint forces shooting down a drone launched by the Houthi militia towards strategic and navigational areas on the western coast, confirming the downing of a Houthi march in the sky of the Hays district, south of Hodeidah, which is the third to be shot down in the district within a week.
Meanwhile, during the past hours, the militias bombed residential areas, farms, and joint positions in the northwest of Hays. The sources of fire were answered and silenced.
The engineering teams of the joint forces on the western coast were able to dismantle a network of mines planted by the Houthi militia on a public road linking the districts of Al-Jarrahi and Hays and the districts of western Taiz, while the Saudi "Masam" project was able to clear the Al-Rama area in the Al-Mokha district, west of Taiz.
In Hadramawt, the security services in the governorate were able to seize a shipment of weapons that included equipment used in the installation of booby-trapped marches, which were on their way to the Houthi militia, according to the Yemeni Ministry of Interior.
In Saada, the Yemeni forces thwarted Houthi movements in the "Al-Raqo" area of the Munabbih district, which led to deaths and injuries among the militias.
Saada witnessed, during the past hours, a protest stand against the Houthi militia against the background of its arbitrary practices against the tribes and people of the province.
In Sana'a, the militias acknowledged the death of a number of leaders close to Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, who had fallen on the fighting fronts during the armistice period, and "Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Muhannad al-Houthi, First Lieutenant Rashad Khaled al-Houthi, Lieutenant Muhammad al-Muayyad, Lieutenant Muhammad al-Wazir, and Lieutenant Muhammad al-Mandi were buried."
On the other hand, the militias began wide crackdowns against commercial houses and businessmen, with the aim of controlling their property and transferring it to its elements coming from Saada, according to commercial sources, indicating that the militias sought to control the Hayel Saeed Trading House group in the capital.
With the end of the calendar year 2022, Yemeni political and military sources expected that the year 2023 would be a year of peace in Yemen, in light of the efforts and moves undertaken by the United Nations backed by US-European diplomatic efforts, as well as the continuation of the ceasefire despite the militias' refusal to extend the humanitarian truce since Early last October.
The year 2022 witnessed political and military events, the most important of which was the announcement by the United Nations on April 2 of the start of a humanitarian truce, during which a cease-fire and military escalation took place, and negotiations began on three main points: opening Sana’a International Airport, allowing the entry of oil derivatives into the port of Hodeidah, opening the main roads and lifting the siege. imposed by the terrorist Houthi militia on the city of Taiz nearly eight years ago.
The year 2022 also witnessed the formation of the Presidential Leadership Council of 8 members, headed by Rashad Al-Alimi, to carry out peace missions and unify efforts to serve the Yemenis whose living conditions have reached a state of poverty and famine.
The humanitarian truce sponsored by the United Nations was extended twice before the militias refused to extend it for the third time on October 2, to begin a phase of international efforts led by the United Nations and the United States, with international and regional support, in order to return to calm, while the militias continued their combat escalation and launched terrorist attacks against oil installations in Hadramout and Shabwa on October 18 and 21, and expanded its attacks on combat sites in Marib, Taiz, Al-Dhalea, Lahj, the western coast, and Al-Jawf.
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