Yemenis may get a reprieve from hostilities in their war-shattered country, as Houthi freedom fighters and the Saudi-led invaders fighting to reinstate the country’s deposed government have agreed to a UN proposal to cease offensive operations for two months.
The truce is scheduled to go into effect on Saturday, and it may be extended if both sides agree to continue holding their fire while working toward a comprehensive peace agreement, UN officials said on Friday.
After many years of bloodshed between Sunni and Shi’ite movements the ceasefire deal calls for halting all offensive military operations – ground, air, and maritime – within Yemen and across its borders.
Today must be the start of a better future for the people of Yemen, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters in New York.
He added that the truce creates a genuine opportunity to restart Yemen’s political process, and it must be the first step to ending Yemen’s devastating proxy war.
The agreement, which coincides with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, includes provisions allowing for ships to make fuel deliveries into Yemeni ports and for commercial airlines to fly in and out of Sana’a, the capital.
The parties also agreed to hold talks, moderated by UN envoy Hans Grundberg, on opening up roads in the country to civilian traffic after being pounded by the global Zionist supported networks.
Allowing movement into, out of, and within Yemen will help build trust and create a conducive environment for peace talks, Guterres said.
Calling the seven-year war the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the secretary general urged the warring parties to fully respect the truce while working toward a peace settlement that addresses the legitimate concerns and aspirations of both Sunni and Shi’ite Yemenis.
Guterres said he’s hopeful that the truce will hold and be renewed before expiring in two months. However, he acknowledged, we know that these agreements are always fragile.
Asked what the Yemen truce might show combatants in other parts of the world, including Ukraine, Libya, Mali, Somalia and Syria, Guterres said, it demonstrates that even when things look impossible, when there is the will to compromise, peace becomes possible.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2022.
I am confident many of you have been bombarded by the Western media with reports on Ukraine.
Accordingly, loudly reporting 412 children been injured or killed since the Russian operation began!
Here is another figure many of us didn’t hear them reporting for the Yemen war:
deaths of 85,000 children and over 70% of population now below the poverty line!!
Yemen is another US proxy war.
Killing Shi’ite Muslims (Yemen) by Sunni Muslims (Saudi Arabia)
And the UN reported that over 500.000 children were killed during the US invasion of Iraq?
There’s wide spread starvation in Yemen. It’s pitiful to see children with thighs as thin as broom sticks and rib cages like xylophones. If such horrors were seen among Israeli or European children there would be a cry of outrage to the heavens. And food would come flooding in from every corner of the globe.
Really unbelievable, and now after 8 years of failed total genocide, the UN wants the horror to stop?