Shaaban Bilal (Aden, Cairo)
The UN Security Council condemned the recent military attacks and parades of the terrorist Houthi militia, calling on them to stop obstructing the entry of fuel ships to the ports of Hodeidah and calling for intensifying negotiations to reach an expanded armistice agreement.
In a statement yesterday evening, the members of the UN Security Council highlighted the tangible benefits of the armistice agreement between the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia, which has entered its sixth month.
The Council called on the parties to “urgently intensify the negotiations and show flexibility in the negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations to agree on an expanded armistice that can be translated into a permanent ceasefire.”
The Security Council statement stated: “The members of the Security Council welcomed the exceptional measures taken by the Yemeni government to avoid fuel shortages in Houthi-controlled areas, following a Houthi order that affected the process in place to clear fuel ships.”
He called on the Houthis to refrain from such actions in the future and to cooperate with UN-led efforts to identify a permanent solution to ensure the flow of fuel.
The Council condemned all attacks that threaten to disrupt the truce, including the bloody Houthi attack in Taiz late last month.
“Emphasizing that there is no military solution for Yemen, the members also condemned the recent military parade in Hodeidah,” the statement said.
He called on the Houthi militias to act flexibly in the negotiations and to open Taiz’s main roads immediately.
Meanwhile, Yemeni Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani condemned, in the strongest terms, the Houthi terrorist coup militia’s storming of a number of villages in “Isolat Al-Qasra” in the “Bait Al-Faqih” district in Hodeidah Governorate.
Al-Eryani said in a statement published by the Yemeni news agency “Saba” that the Houthi militia raided the area with tens of crews and bulldozers, stormed dozens of houses and fired indiscriminately at civilians, and arrested about 70 of them, including notables of the region and a number of children, as part of a wide campaign to loot lands in the area.
Al-Eryani indicated that this crime comes within the scheme of the terrorist Houthi militia to confiscate more than 10 kilometers of land owned by the people of the region, benefiting more than 5,000 people, and for decades it has been used as “watersheds, pastures and farms”, after issuing instructions to confiscate it, and turn it into an area military, and prevent approaching them.
Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations, human rights organizations, and UN and American envoys to condemn this heinous crime, and to put real pressure on the terrorist militias to stop the confiscation of land and private property in the Hodeidah districts, immediately release all detainees and return the displaced to their homes.
Yemeni and international human rights associations have monitored the practices of terrorist militias towards defenseless innocents.
Experts and political analysts confirmed that the Houthi militias used to use violence, impose royalties and intimidate civilians.
Yemeni political analyst Mahmoud Al-Taher considered that “the Houthi militias took advantage of the international truce and exported this to the Yemeni interior as a victory for them and a failure for the government, and began to wreak havoc with the aim of earning more money, terrorizing the tribes and forcing them to fully comply with their agendas.”
In statements to Al-Ittihad, Al-Taher stressed the need for daily government action to monitor violations so that Houthi crimes against civilians stop, and to inform the United Nations to escalate its rhetoric against the militias, considering that silence about them makes them go further against the Yemenis.
Despite the international condemnation, “Al-Houthi” continues its terrorist practices, which Saudi law professor Aseel Al-Juaid considered an insult to Yemeni people and a stigma, stressing that they are war crimes.
Al-Juaid said in statements to Al-Ittihad that “all these crimes will continue to pursue Houthi leaders as war criminals for a long time, especially since Yemen is one of the countries that signed the Rome Charter of the Criminal Court, and a national judicial will must be established to hold Al Houthi accountable for his crimes through trials and the announcement of the investigation.” of the authorities in the crimes of the militias.”
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