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The Saudi-led coalition is prepared to use “calibrated force” to push the popular Houthi movement to withdraw from Yemen’s Hodeida port city under a U.N.-sponsored deal, a senior United Arab Emirates official said on Wednesday.
Yemen’s warring parties have failed to pull troops from the country’s main port under a month-old truce, reviving the threat of an all-out assault on Hodeida that could unleash famine.
The Houthis control Hodeida while other Yemeni factions backed by the coalition trying to forcefully restore the resigned Yemeni regime are massed on its outskirts.
Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for the resigned Hadi regime, said the Western-backed Arab coalition struck 10 Houthi training camps outside Hodeida governorate on Wednesday.
“Coalition prepared to use more calibrated force to prod Houthi compliance with Stockholm Agreement,” he tweeted.
U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths has been shuttling between the parties to rescue the deal, the first major diplomatic breakthrough of the nearly four-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed Yemen to the verge of starvation.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
