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The Houthis have been removed from the list of U.S. terrorist organizations - and have intensified their attacks
The Biden administration is trying to advance the end of the war in Yemen, but the pro-Iranian Shiite rebels have sent four trapped UAVs into the kingdom within a day. "The Houthis are calling for an immediate halt to the attacks," said the Washington envoy.
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Guy Elster
Monday, 08 February 2021, 13:00
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The United States has abolished the definition of Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization, but pro-Iranian Shiite forces have stepped up their attacks in recent days against Saudi coalition forces.
Yesterday (Sunday) Washington warned the Houthis against further attacks on civilians and called on them to cease new military activity in Yemen.
Only on Friday did President Joe Biden's government update Congress on its intention to remove the Houthis from the list of "foreign terrorist organizations," a definition that would lead to harsh sanctions, following Biden's declaration of cessation of US support for the Saudi coalition's offensive activities in Yemen.
Aid organizations have welcomed the removal of the Houthis from the list, which has been included in the last days of President Donald Trump's previous administration.
Opponents of the move say that it will exacerbate what is defined by the UN as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world because it will damage the humanitarian aid to the population on the brink of starvation.
Others claim that Biden administration would condition the issuance of a cease fighting Houthi list or Link this to talks with Iran, which supports Shiite rebels. Yesterday, the UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, arrived in Tehran for a first visit.
He met with Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif during his two-day visit.
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"While the President is taking steps to end the war in Yemen and as Saudi Arabia supports a peace settlement, the United States is very concerned about the continuation of Houthi attacks," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
"We call on the Houthis to immediately stop the attacks on civilian areas within Saudi Arabia and to cease all new military activity in Yemen, which will only bring further suffering to the Yemeni people."
Over the past day, the Saudi coalition has reportedly thwarted four attacks by trapped UAVs launched in the direction of the kingdom. "Price said.
"The time has come to find a solution to this conflict."
The regional war in the poor Arab country began in March 2015, following the Houthi advance towards the occupation of the south of the country following the takeover of the capital Sanaa a year earlier.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and several other Arab countries have managed to repel the rebels from the south, but the conflict has turned into a war of attrition with no real changes on the ground.
According to the ACLED project, which monitors conflicts around the world, about 130,000 people were killed in the war, including 13,000 civilians.
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