Hodeidah Governor Hassan Tahir said that Iran-backed Houthi militias refuse to “take any positive step” towards advancing the implementation of the UN-brokered Stockholm agreement signed last December.
Houthi requests to negotiates the economic and Sanaa airport files are designed to stall and dodge the implementation of the agreement signed in Sweden, Tahir said while noting that the group’s demands were not included in the deal.
Tahir, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, revisited the Houthi-staged attack directed at the United Nations and its UN envoy and violations of the agreement signed in Sweden.
Tahir stressed that the military decision is more likely as Houthis still refuse to hand over the key Red Sea port city, and are determined on prolonging the people’s suffering in the province.
The war of starvation and policy of impoverishment waged by Houthis against Yemenis must stop, Brigadier Sadiq Dawid, a Yemeni popular resistance spokesman said.
Dawid revealed that Houthis, despite Yemeni authorities and international bodies agreeing on the delivery of humanitarian relief to millions of starved Yemenis, Houthis continue to block any convoy from reaching areas struck with humanitarian disaster.
He explained that while Houthi forces inhibit the delivery of aid convoys, the Yemeni government forces and its allies have deployed expert demining teams to ensure the safety of humanitarian aid routes and to facilitate relief convoys’ passage.
“Houthis use food and medicine as a weapon against the people, they steal aid and spending it into their war effort, and they have shelled and destroyed wheat silos off the Red Sea to further deprive anguished people,” Dawid added.
