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    • Yemen war sides fail to operate 1st flight as part of truce

    A passenger airplane flies between a smouldering fire at a Saudi Aramco oil depot after a Yemen Houthi rebel attack, ahead of a Formula One race as the sun rises in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) A passenger airplane flies between a smouldering fire at a Saudi Aramco oil depot after a Yemen Houthi rebel attack, ahead of a Formula One race as the sun rises in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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    SANAA, Yemen -

    Yemen's warring parties failed to operate the first commercial flight in six years from the rebel-held capital on Sunday, dealing a blow to an already fragile truce in the country's grinding conflict.

    The flight to Amman, Jordan, had been planned as part of the UN-brokered, 60-day truce agreement that the internationally recognized government and the Houthi rebels struck earlier this month.

    The truce, which went into effect on April 2, is the first nationwide cease-fire in Yemen in six years. It came amid concerted international and regional efforts to find a settlement to the conflict that devastated the Arab World's poorest country and pushed it to the brink of famine.

    Yemen's brutal civil war erupted in 2014, when the Iranian-backed Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and forced the government into exile. The Saudi-led coalition entered the war in early 2015 to try restore the government to power.

    The conflict has in recent years become a regional proxy war that has killed more than 150,000 people, including over 14.500 civilians. It has also created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

    As part of the truce, the two sides agreed to operate two commercial flights a week to and from Sanaa to Jordan and Egypt. Sanaa is blockaded by the Saudi-led coalition.

    However, both sides have failed to operate the first flight, over three weeks since the truce took effect. They have traded blame for the failure.

    The Houthis accused the Saudi-led coalition of failing to issue needed permits for the flight, without giving further details.

    Moammar al-Iryani, information minister of the internationally recognized government, said the Houthis did not adhere to the agreement because they wanted dozens of passengers to board using passports issued by the rebels.

    He said the government allowed the travel of 104 passengers on the Sanaa-Amman flight but the Houthis insisted on adding 60 more passengers "with unreliable passports."

    The internationally recognized government announced in March 2017 that it doesn't recognize documents issued by the rebels.

    A spokesman for the Houthis did not respond to a request for comment.

    Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, urged both sides to "work constructively" with the UN to address the challenges that delayed the flight.

    "The Truce is meant to benefit civilians including through reducing violence, making fuel available, and improving their freedom of movement to, from and within their country," . 

    Along with the flights, the truce also included allowing 18 vessels carrying fuel into the port of Hodeida, which is controlled by the Houthis, over a two-month period. The internationally recognized government has so far allowed eight fuel vessels to into Hodedia, the UN envoy's office said.

    The sides have also yet to convene on a reopening of roads around Taiz and other provinces as part of the truce. The government accused the Houthis of delaying the meeting as they did not send names of their delegation for the talks to the UN envoy's office.

    The government provided the names of its delegation on April 7, according to the UN envoy's office.

    Erin Hutchinson, Yemen director at the Norwegian Refugee Council, said she was deeply disappointed by the last-minute cancellation of the flight. She urged both sides to adhere to to their commitments in the truce, including the flights and the reopening of roads in Taiz and elsewhere in Yemen.

    "The first few weeks of the truce have already allowed us to reach areas that were inaccessible for over three years because of the fighting," she said.

    The truce has resulted in a subsiding of ground and air fighting and the rebels have stopped their cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, another pillar of the anti-Houthi coalition.

    Both sides, however, have reported almost daily violations of the cease-fire, especially around the government-held central city of Marib, which the Houthis have attempted to seize for over a year.

    The Houthis, meanwhile, released 14 foreign detainees. They were a British citizen, his wife and son, as well as seven Indians, and one detainee each from Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Ethiopia, Oman's Foreign Ministry said.

    The ministry said in a statement the detainees were transferred Saturday on an Omani military flight to Oman's capital, Muscat before heading to their home countries. Oman has close ties with the Houthis and has for years played a mediation role in Yemen's war.

    Luke Symons, a 29-year-old from Cardiff, was apparently detained simply for holding a U.K. passport. He had been arrested at a Houthi-manned checkpoint in April 2017 in the southwestern city of Taiz, Amnesty International said in February.

    The rights group said the Houthis tortured him and accused him of spying for the British government.

    It was not immediately clear whether the seven Indians are the crew of an Emirati ship the Houthis seized in January in the Red Sea off Hodeida.

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    Magdy reported from Cairo.

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