The Iran-backed Houthis’ Supreme Political Council said they would not agree to extend the UN-brokered truce in Yemen despite Saudi Arabia’s pledge to extend and strengthen the truce and to engage in talks to end the war.
The SPC slammed international calls, including from US President Biden and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to adhere to the truce and open roads in the besieged city of Taiz, claiming that they affect the sovereignty, security, and stability of Yemen, and blasted the outcomes of Biden’s visit to the region
They stressed that it was the side of the aggression that did not abide by the implementation of the truce’s terms, which represented a shocking and disappointing experience that they refuse to repeat in the future.
The joint Saudi and American call to renew the truce in the seven-year war that’s roiled the Arabian Gulf and triggered a humanitarian crisis, resulted from Biden’s meeting on Saturday with Saudi officials. They all noted that the truce has achieved the longest period of peace in Yemen in the last six years.
Not only do they refuse to extend the truce, but the Houthis have also threatened to break the blockade and seize control of oil, gas, and electricity facilities in the central province of Marib by launching deadly attacks across Yemen
Houthi leader,” Hussein Al-Ezzi stressed in his message on Twitter that Houthis will not allow the country to be left under siege and occupation and that they won’t leave its oil and gas resources in the hands of thieves and corrupt people.
All sides renewed the truce – that came into effect on April 2 with UN mediation – in June which significantly reduced the violence and allowed the resumption of fuel ships to Hodeidah port and commercial flights from the airport in Sanaa.
However, the Houthis’ refusal to open main roads in Taiz stroke a major blow to the truce with the Yemeni government rejecting their proposal to open a small and old road into the city.
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