The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold its regular meeting on Yemen this afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, to discuss the latest military and political developments, and opportunities for establishing peace in the country, in light of the continuing escalation in the Red Sea and the US-British raids on Houthi targets.

The United Nations website said that the Security Council will hold, today, Tuesday, at ten in the morning New York time (five in the afternoon Yemen time), a closed consultation session to discuss efforts and opportunities to establish peace in Yemen, with the increasing intensity of escalation between the Houthi group on the one hand and the international coalition. Led by the United States of America and Britain on the other hand.

During the closed consultation session, Council members are scheduled to listen to briefings from the UN Special Envoy to Yemen. Hans Grundberg, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; Joyce Msuya, and the head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA), Major General Michael Beary.

The UN envoy’s briefing will include the results of his recent meetings with the Yemeni parties and regional actors in the conflict, which come as part of his efforts to establish peace in Yemen, which have become more complex in the recent period with the effects of the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas reaching the country.

The regular meeting of the Security Council comes in light of heated developments on the Yemeni scene, most notably the Houthi group’s continued attacks on commercial ships in the Red and Arab Seas, in addition to the American and British forces launching raids inside Yemen, in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. , following the issuance of a Security Council resolution regarding it.

The Security Council held a meeting on January 10, and issued its Resolution No. (2722), condemning the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea, and demanded that they be stopped immediately, and that countries be given the right to respond to these attacks, to protect their commercial ships. One day later, American and British forces carried out 73 raids on military targets and sites in a number of Yemeni governorates.