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ADEN (Reuters) – Violent clashes erupted in the port city of Yemen, Hodeidah, on Monday, breaking a lull in violence that sparked hopes for a ceasefire between a Saudi-led coalition and rebels. Houthis insurgents, while the UN was trying to resume peace talks.
Coalition aircraft carried out more than 10 airstrikes on Houthi positions and fights were heard in the July 7 district, four kilometers from the port, residents said. One resident said that a medium-range missile had been launched from the city center to the suburbs.
The Saudi-led coalition and the United Arab Emirates had ordered the end of its offensive against the Houthi-controlled port city, at the heart of the war, as the West was pushing for an end to the war. conflict that pushed Yemen to the edge of famine.
The Iranian armed group Houthi announced on Monday that it was putting an end to drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their Yemeni allies, in one of its largest concessions since leaving the port of Aden in 2015.
The Houthi movement also said it was ready for a wider ceasefire if the coalition "wants peace."
Yemen's information minister, Moammar al-Eryani, said the Houthis had "fired a missile into Saudi land," adding that on his Twitter account, the missile did not reach its target. and fell inside Yemen. The Houthi authorities could not be contacted immediately to comment on the report.
It was unclear whether the resumption of fighting in Hodeidah would defeat the efforts of UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths to save peace talks that collapsed in September when the delegation Houthis did not come forward.
"The fighting is intensifying and we can clearly hear machine guns and mortar fire. It's one of the worst nights we've had, "said Mustafa Abdo, a resident of Hodeidah.
Asked about the clashes, a pro-coalition Yemeni military source told Reuters last Monday that a cease-fire in Hodeidah would only begin when the US Security Council adopts a British resolution on Yemen.
It is not clear immediately when the text, submitted to the Security Council on Monday, could be put to the vote.
The United Nations Ambassador to Kuwait, Mansour al-Otaibi, told reporters that he would propose amendments to the draft resolution, Kuwait being dissatisfied with "many things". He also stated that some board members did not think the time was right for a resolution.
The draft resolution, seen by Reuters, calls for the cessation of fighting in Hodeida, attacks on populated areas of Yemen and the end of attacks on countries in the region.
It also calls for an unhindered flow of commercial and humanitarian goods across the impoverished country, including a large and rapid injection of foreign exchange into the economy through the Central Bank of Yemen and increased financing of the economy. # 39; s help.
Western allies, including the United States, have called for a ceasefire before peace efforts to end the nearly four-year-long war that has killed more than 10,000 people and sparked the humanitarian crisis the most urgent in the world.
Western countries have provided weapons and intelligence to the Arab countries of the alliance, but have expressed increasing reservations about the war since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Riyadh consulate in Istanbul last month.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemeni war in 2015 to re-establish the internationally renowned Yemeni government that had been ousted from the capital by the Houthis in 2014.
The conflict is considered a proxy war between Riyadh and Iran.
Mr Griffiths said on Friday that the Yemeni parties had given "firm assurances" that they were committed to participating in the peace talks he hoped to gather in Sweden before the end of the year. Year to agree on a peace framework for a transitional government.
Additional report by Michelle Nichols in New York; Written by Ghaida Ghantous, Nayera Abdallah, edited by William Maclean
