Member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Othman Majali, confirmed today that the Yemeni government will not accept any Houthi dictates that keep Yemen hostage under the authority of a "rebel militia" over the state.

The Yemeni news agency quoted Megally as saying during his meeting with the Chargé d'Affairs of the Japanese Embassy in Yemen, Kazuhiro Higashi, "The Houthi militia has a foreign agenda, and it imagines that by military escalation and rejecting the armistice, it will achieve gains by shedding more blood of the Yemeni people."

We reject blackmail

"We reject this hostile behavior and will not accept pressure and blackmail, and we will not accept any Houthi conditions or dictates that keep Yemen hostage under the authority of a rebel militia against the state and international resolutions," he added, calling on the international community to deal firmly with the Houthi terrorist group.

He also pointed out that the armistice does not exist on the ground and that the Houthi militia carried out "thousands of violations, and continued the military escalation" and escalated its violations along the lines of contact during the last period, using various types of weapons that left a number of dead and wounded among the innocent and the national army.

"On Iranian orders"

He considered that "everything al-Houthi does comes under Iranian orders, and the weapons he is displaying to terrorize Yemenis are Iranian weapons supervised by experts from Hezbollah and Iran."

These statements come after international efforts failed to extend the previous UN armistice, which expired on the second of this month (October 2022).

On August 2, the United Nations announced that the Yemeni parties had agreed to extend the armistice for two additional months, according to the same conditions, from August 2 to October 2, 2022.