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A spokesman for the Houthi Ansarullah movement underlined that the group is determined to help resolve the ongoing crisis in Yemen through political means.

In an interview with Yemen’s state television, Mohammad Abdul-Salam said, "We are committed to a political solution to the Yemeni crisis. Saudi Arabia, however, is sabotaging [the peace talks]". 

He stressed that the Ansarullah officials are ready to return to the Omani capital of Muscat to resume the peace negotiations.

He called on the other party to the talks [Saudis and representatives of fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi’s government] to fulfill their obligations to end the Yemeni crisis.

Abdul-Salam went on to defend Ansarullah’s defensive measures, saying that they have nothing to do with the "political path" taken by the movement, and that Yemeni forces will continue to defend the country against aggressors in any place, even on Saudi soil.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression on Yemen by carrying out airstrikes against the country since March 26 in an attempt to restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].

More than 5400 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the US-led Saudi aggression against Yemen so far, tasnim news reported. 

The Saudi-led aerial strikes have also targeted 61 hospitals and 13 ambulances.