On Thursday, Yemen's Deputy Foreign Minister Mansour Bajash told the official Saba news agency that "the government has announced two cease-fires in order to give the UN initiative and the UN special envoy's efforts the opportunity to achieve results and guarantee the withdrawal of the rebels from the city and the port, but the militants refused to respond to it and turned down the initiative."
Abdul-Raqeeb Hidyani, a political writer and journalist, said the Yemeni government forces are firm to uproot the Houthi militants who received heavy blows in the ongoing fighting raging over the control Hodeidah.
He said that "peace negotiations may be conducted after expelling Houthis from the whole province of Hodeidah because now both the two-warring sides are mobilizing their forces and waiting for the zero hour to begin the real battle."
"The Houthis were pushed out from the government institutions in Hodeidah's district of Tuhyata that has been an important base for the militias and more areas will be liberated in the next few days," Hidyani said.
He believed the recent military victories, including recapturing Tuhyata and other surrounding areas, would build momentum for the government forces to advance toward the center of Hodeidah to expel the Houthi militias.
The strategic military expert Ali Naji Obeid confirmed that the the tough battles between the UAE-backed Yemeni forces and the Houthi fighters in Hodeidah haven't started yet.
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