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Yemeni forces ready to fight back if Saudi Arabia wants to continue war: Army spokesman

Sunday, 31 July 2022 5:12 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 31 July 2022 5:32 PM ]

The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree (File photo)

The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has warned the Saudi-led coalition that Yemeni forces are ready to fight if the war coalition decides to continue its aggression against the impoverished Arab country.

"If the Saudi aggressor coalition wants peace, the negotiating delegation has given more than enough [concessions] and if it wants war, we are ready for it," Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen television quoted Brigadier General Yahya Saree as saying on Sunday.

The remarks come as a delegation from Oman is in Yemen to discuss the extension of a ceasefire between Yemen's National Salvation Government and the Saudi-led coalition in the country.

The initial two-month UN-backed truce started at the beginning of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on April 2 and was extended for another 2-month on June 2.

In line with the agreement, the coalition agreed to end its attacks on Yemeni soil and end a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen.

Saudi-led coalition seizes another Yemen-bound fuel ship in violation of UN-brokered ceasefire

The Yemen Gas Company (YGC) says Saudi-led coalition forces have seized yet another Yemen-bound fuel ship in blatant violation of the UN-brokered ceasefire.

However, it has violated the truce on several occasions by attacking the war-battered country, canceling flights, and confiscating fuel ships, to name a few.

Earlier in the day, an official source in Yemen's Supreme Political Council told al-Mayadeen that the Omani delegation will discuss with the Yemeni side "the advantages of extending the humanitarian and military truce in Yemen," adding that "Sana'a will also present its stance towards the renewal of the ceasefire.”

The official said the National Salvation Government will link the extension of the ceasefire to reducing the current problems in Yemen, stressing that the reopening of Hudaydah port and Sana’a airport is the right of the Yemeni people and should not be conditional or restricted.

Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and other Western states.

The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.

While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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