Parliament Condemns the Aggression’s Repudiation of Implementation Truce

Yemeni Parliament, headed by the Speaker of Parliament, Yahya Al-Ra’i, condemned the disavowal of the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries from implementing the temporary truce announced by the envoy of the Secretary-General of the UN.

The Presidency of the Parliament indicated in a statement that the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries did not commit to implementing the terms of the truce, including allowing the entry of fuel ships, opening the ports of Hodeidah, opening Sana’a International Airport, as well as what is related to the exchange of prisoners.

It pointed out that Saudi Arabia deliberately misleads local and international public opinion by sending a number of Yemeni workers detained in its prisons for more than seven years, who are being arbitrarily detained and deported as being among war prisoners.

It touched on the allegations of Saudi officials handing over some foreign prisoners to Sana’a to be handed over to their embassies, knowing that the embassies operate from Riyadh in an outright misleading.

The Parliament reiterated Sana’a’s commitment to implementing all the terms of the UN-sponsored truce.

In the statement, the Parliament called on the Security Council, the UN, and the international community to hold full responsibility for the coalition’s disavowal of implementing the terms of truce.

It warned against the continuation of piracy by the Saudi-led aggression in Yemeni waters, stressing that the international corridor in the Red Sea adjacent to Yemen is safe and protected from the state bordering it.

It deplored the Arab, Islamic and regional silence and the various international bodies towards the war crimes committed by the forces of the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people and Islamic sanctities.

The Parliament strongly condemned the Zionist enemy’s continued targeting and killing of the Palestinian people and journalists, the latest of which was the assassination of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

In early April, the UN envoy to Yemen announced a UN-sponsored humanitarian truce for a period of two months. The truce, meant to halt all military operations in the country and bring the foreign military invasion to an end, came into effect on April 2.

The deal stipulates halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen’s lifeline Hodeidah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a “to predetermined destinations in the region.”

Nearly a month has passed since the truce went into effect but without significant progress. The airport is still blockaded and has not received any flights, in light of the obstacles created by the coalition of aggression. The past few weeks were supposed to witness at least two commercial flights a week to and from Sana’a International Airport.

The matter also applies to the port of Hodeidah. While the countries of aggression were supposed to facilitate the smooth flow of ships to the port, under the truce, the inspecting ships are still subject to inspection, and are detained off the coast of Jizan despite obtaining UN permits and licenses.

On the ground, the fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside. Shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl, including a failed advance carried out by mercenaries towards Army and Popular Committee sites south of Marib.

All indicators do not serve the steadfastness of the humanitarian and military truce, and provide evidence that Sana’a continues to exercise restraint, in the face of heterogeneous parties that do not abide or respect their commitments to a truce sponsored by the UN.