Al-Alimi Affirms Commitment to Political Partnership, National Consensus to End Houthi Coup

The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) Rashad al-Alimi (Saba News Agency)
The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) Rashad al-Alimi (Saba News Agency)
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Al-Alimi Affirms Commitment to Political Partnership, National Consensus to End Houthi Coup

The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) Rashad al-Alimi (Saba News Agency)
The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) Rashad al-Alimi (Saba News Agency)

The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Rashad al-Alimi, confirmed on Wednesday his commitment to partnership and national consensus during the transitional phase until the Houthi-waged coup is stopped.

Moreover, al-Alimi vowed a strong collective response in the face of the Houthi attacks against liberated regions and governorates in Yemen.

Al-Alimi's statements were made in a recorded speech viewed by a general meeting of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission in Yemen’s interim capital, Aden.

The Commission concluded the recent meeting by approving three documents related to work regulations, the general framework of the political vision for the comprehensive peace process, and the principles of reconciliation between legitimate political forces and parties.

“The constitutional oath and the pledge made by the members of the PLC to our people in the north and south to proceed based on partnership and national consensus remains firm, and we will not deviate from it, whatever the challenges,” said al-Alimi.

“Today, we confirm our growing confidence in the strength of our strategic alliance and its agreement around its common goals for the transitional period,” he added.

Headed by al-Alimi, the PLC consists of eight people representing all Yemeni parties and political forces opposed to the Houthi coup.

Al-Alimi expressed his gratitude to the presidency and members of the Commission for their support of the PLC.

The chairman recalled how the Commission has long backed PLC and ensured it remained interactive and united around common goals and achieving consensus during the remainder of the transitional period.

Al-Alimi hoped that the Commission's meetings would represent an essential shift in the course of the broad national coalition against Houthi militias who are implementing a destructive Iranian project in Yemen.

He also promised to uphold “freedom, difference, and participation” principles as genuine constitutional foundations and saluted all those confronting the Houthi project in all Yemeni provinces.



Palestinians in Gaza Hope for a Ceasefire as They Endure War's Harsh Conditions

07 January 2025, Palestinian Territories, Deir al Balah: A Palestinian woman bakes bread inside a tent at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
07 January 2025, Palestinian Territories, Deir al Balah: A Palestinian woman bakes bread inside a tent at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Palestinians in Gaza Hope for a Ceasefire as They Endure War's Harsh Conditions

07 January 2025, Palestinian Territories, Deir al Balah: A Palestinian woman bakes bread inside a tent at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
07 January 2025, Palestinian Territories, Deir al Balah: A Palestinian woman bakes bread inside a tent at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip still have hope that Israel’s 15-month war with Hamas will end soon, as both sides appear to be inching toward a ceasefire deal.
“What we are living is not a life. Nobody could bear the situation we’re experiencing for a single day,” said Munawar al-Bik, a displaced woman from Gaza City.
“We wake up at night to the sounds of men crying, because of the bad situation,” al-Bik said. “The situation is unbearable, we have no energy left, we want it to end today.”
She spoke to The Associated Press on a dusty road in the southern city of Khan Younis beside the rubble of a destroyed building. Behind her, a sea of makeshift tents filled with displaced families stretched into the distance.
Muhammad Zaqout, a displaced man from Gaza City, said he’s sick of children being killed daily, of the destruction and displacement.
In recent months, families who fled their homes in Gaza have had little access to clean water or enough food to eat, and they struggle to cope with harsh winter conditions that have killed several babies from hypothermia in recent weeks.
Issam Saqr, displaced from Khan Younis, said he hopes the ceasefire “will happen today — before tomorrow!”