Houthis using Sweden deal to control Hudaydah

The Houthi militia has violated a United Nations-imposed truce in the western coastal Yemeni city of al-Hudaydah by maintaining the shelling of the sites of joint forces and residential areas in the city.
The Legitimacy Support Coalition
said, meanwhile, that it had foiled a terrorist attack by a booby-trapped boat
in the Red Sea.
The Houthis move ahead with
escalation in al-Hudaydah by bringing their militants together and shelling the
sites of joint forces in more than one area.
The Iran-aligned militia brought
together dozens of vehicles and hundreds of militants in the western Yemeni
coast until the early hours of October 6, according to field military sources.
Yemeni army spokesman Lt. Gen.
Abdo Majly accused the Houthis of failing to abide by the Stockholm ceasefire
agreement in al-Hudaydah.
The Iran-backed militia, he said,
maintained its violations and massacres against civilians in the coastal city.
"The UN is responsible for
what is happening on the ground," Majly said in a statement.
He said the UN had failed in
clearly denouncing the militia for killing civilians.
"It did not put pressure on
the militia to show abidance by the Stockholm agreement either," Majly
said.
He noted that the Houthis do not
understand the language of dialogue or agreements.
Yemeni political analyst Kamel
al-Khudani said the Houthis had failed in honoring the Stockholm deal which was
signed in December 2018.
"The Houthis want to
recapture territories liberated by the Joint Yemeni Forces," Khudani said.
He told The Reference that the
international community turns a blind eye to Houthi violations of the al-Hudaydah
agreement.
"The militia has used the
Sweden deal in imposing the status quo and threatening the right of the Yemeni
people to a secure and dignified life," Khudani added.