Colonel Abdul Basit al-Bahr, spokesman for the Yemeni Army Axis in Taiz governorate, said that the attacks launched by the Yemeni Houthi group Ansar Allah and the killing of a number of their perpetrators were carried out in Taiz governorate, southwest of Yemen, about two days after the failure of negotiations to extend the United Nations truce.

He stated on social media that “Army units prevented an attempt by the Ansar Allah group to infiltrate the Al-Hamad hospital area on the northeastern front of the city last night, and the clashes began after heavy artillery fire from mortars and heavy machine guns,” stressing that the clashes “killed several members”. The attacking Ansar Allah, breaking their attempts, thwarted them and forced them to retreat and flee.

Earlier, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said that “no agreement has been reached to extend and expand the truce in Yemen, and reaffirmed their ongoing efforts with the parties to the conflict in Yemen to do so”, urging all parties to “remain calm and refrain from any form of provocation or action that could lead to an escalation of violence.”

This was preceded by a statement by the negotiating delegation of the Ansar Allah group last Saturday that negotiations to extend the truce had stalled.
To extend the truce, the group stipulated that the government pays the salaries of civil servants from the oil and gas revenues produced in the governorates controlled by government forces, while the Yemeni Presidential Command Council adheres to the payment of salaries to employees from the revenues of fuel ships calling at the port of Hodeidah on western Yemen, according to the Sputnik news agency.