(Sanaa) A Houthi delegation discussed Thursday, during a visit to Moscow, the “need to intensify efforts to pressure” the United States and Israel to end the war in the Gaza Strip , according to a spokesperson for these Yemeni rebels.
This visit comes in a very tense regional context where, on the sidelines of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, the United States and the United Kingdom recently carried out strikes against Houthi positions, accused of disrupting world trade by increasing attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdelsalam wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that his delegation met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in the afternoon in Moscow.
The two sides discussed the “need to intensify international efforts to exert pressure on the United States and Israel to end” the war in the Gaza Strip and to “deliver humanitarian aid instead.” than militarizing the Red Sea,” said Mr. Abdelsalam.
The conflict in Gaza was sparked by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian movement in Israel on October 7.
For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry “strongly condemned” the American and British strikes during discussions with the Houthis, considering that they were “capable of destabilizing the regional situation”.